Age at menarche: Accuracy of recall after thirty-nine years.
Age at menarche: Accuracy of recall after thirty-nine years.
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初潮年龄：三十九年后回忆的准确性。
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1974
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C. Bajema
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A. Damon;C. Bajema
在一项纵向生长研究中记录了143名月经初潮年龄的女性中，事件发生39年后的回忆结果如下：初潮回忆比实际日期早0.2年（p<0.05），回忆年龄的标准差比实际年龄大0.3年（p< 0.01），实际年龄与回忆年龄的相关系数r为0.60±s.e.0.05。月经初潮回忆年龄的准确性具有重要的临床和科学意义。迄今为止，有两篇关于女性初潮年龄的报告，在纵向生长研究过程中被记录下来，并在几年后被询问。利夫森和麦克尼尔（1962）发现，在17年后接受调查的43名女性中，初潮时的回忆年龄和实际年龄的均值或方差没有差异，其相关系数为0.75。Damon等人（1969）对60名月经初来初去19年后的女性进行了调查，得出了类似的结果，r为0.78。我们在此报告了143名白人女性的回忆准确性，这些女性在1922年至1934年间的一项生长研究中记录了她们的月经初潮年龄，她们在月经初潮平均39年后被询问。1922年，哈佛大学教育研究生院的w·f·迪尔伯恩开始了一项针对波士顿三个郊区所有一年级儿童的研究。在接下来的12年里，或者只要他们还在这些学校系统里，每年9月都要进行标准的身体和智力测试。达蒙博士于1973年7月19日去世。2格兰谷州立学院生物系，密歇根州艾伦代尔49401；《人类生物学》，1974年9月，第46卷第3期，第381-384页。©韦恩州立大学出版社，1974本内容从207.46.13.21星期二，2016年9月27日04:57:38 UTC所有使用遵照http://about.jstor.org/terms 382艾伯特·达蒙和卡尔·杰伊·巴杰马国家在儿童身上进行。详细的数据已经公布，包括三个城镇中两个城镇一些女孩的月经初潮年龄（以月为单位）（Dearborn et al. 1938）。在1967年和1968年，我们通过问卷调查对尽可能多的幸存者进行了跟踪调查。除其他问题外，研究人员还询问了女性月经初潮发生的月份。143名女性回答了这个问题，她们的平均月经初潮年龄为12.98±s.e. 0.08岁（S.D. = 1.0±s.e. 0.06岁）。调查时的平均年龄为52.0±s.e. 0.07岁。表1 39年后月经初潮年龄的准确性。区别召回月经初潮的年龄和实际年龄143女性在第三年哈佛增长研究不同数量(召回年龄报告-百分之一实际年龄)*样本差4 1 0.7 3 3 2.1 2 11 7.7 - 1 29 20.3 0 1.4 15.4 72 50.4 + 22 + 2 2 + 3 3 2.1 143 100.0 *行标题代表类的中点积分区间-3.50 - -4.49,-2.50 - -3.49等。选取本研究对象的数据库如下。在这项研究的3592名参与者中，我们试图找到3198名在他们留在学校系统期间每年接受观察的人，最多12年。其中1222人在1968年还活着，他们上交了调查问卷；死亡204人；849没有回应；由于时间和资金有限，无法追查923。该内容于207.46.13.21（星期二，2016年9月27日04:57:38 UTC）下载
Among 143 women whose menarcheal age was documented during a longitudinal growth study, recall 39 years after the event gave the following results: menarche was recalled as 0.2 years earlier than the actual date (p<0.05), the standard deviation of recalled age was 0.3 years larger (p < 0.01), and the coefficient of correlation, r, between actual and recalled age was 0.60 ± s.e. 0.05. Accuracy of recalled age at menarche is of considerable clinical and scientific moment. There have been two reports to date of women whose ages at menarche were documented during the course of a longitudinal growth study, and who were queried some years thereafter. Livson and McNeill (1962) found, among 43 women questioned after 17 years, no differences in the means or variances of recalled and actual ages at menarche, which were correlated with an r of 0.75. Damon et al. (1969) obtained similar results for 60 women questioned some 19 years after menarche, with an r of 0.78. We report here the accuracy of recall for 143 white women whose menarcheal ages were documented during a growth study between 1922 and 1934, and who were queried, on the average, 39 years after menarche. Subjects and Methods In 1922, W. F. Dearborn of Harvard Graduate School of Education began a study of all children entering the first grade of three Boston suburbs. Each September for the next 12 years, or as long as they remained in these school systems, standard physical and mental exami1 Department of Anthropology and Center for Population Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. Dr. Damon died on July 19, 1973. 2 Department of Biology, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, Mich. 49401. Human Biology , September 1974 , Vol. 46 , No. 3, pp. 381-384. © Wayne State University Press, 1974 This content downloaded from 207.46.13.21 on Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:57:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 382 Albert Damon and Carl Jay Bajema nations were performed on the children. The data have been published in detail, including ages at menarche ( in months ) for some of the girls in two of the three towns (Dearborn et al. 1938). In 1967 and 1968 we followed up, by questionnaire, as many of the survivors as possible. Women were asked, among other things, the age in months at which menarche had occurred. This question was answered by 143 women whose menarchael ages had been recorded at a mean age of 12.98 ± s.e. 0.08 years (S.D. = 1.0 ± s.e. 0.06 years). Their mean age at the time of query was 52.0 ± s.e. 0.07 years. Table 1 Accuracy of Age of Menarche, Recalled after 39 Years. Difference Between Recalled Age and Actual Age at Menarche of 143 Females in the Third Harvard Growth Study Difference in Years Number (recalled age Reporting minus Such a Per Cent actual age ) * Difference of Sample -4 1 0.7 -3 3 2.1 -2 11 7.7 -1 29 20.3 0 72 50.4 + 1 22 15.4 +2 2 1.4 +3 3 2.1 Total 143 100.0 * The integral row headings represent the midpoints of the class intervals -3.50 to -4.49, -2.50 to -3.49, etc. The data base from which the present subjects were drawn was as follows. Of 3,592 participants in the study, we tried to locate 3,198 who had been observed annually for as long as they remained in the school systems, up to a maximum of 12 years. Of these, 1,222 were alive in 1968 and returned questionnaires; 204 were deceased; 849 did not respond; and 923 could not be traced with the limited time and funds available. Of the 1,222 persons returning questionnaires, 613 were This content downloaded from 207.46.13.21 on Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:57:38 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms