Rama Saha1, Lena Marions2, Per Tornvall2. 1. Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: rama.saha@ki.se. 2. Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the validity of self-reported endometriosis and to improve the reliability of questionnaires by including endometriosis-related questions. DESIGN: Analysis of survey questionnaire data. SETTING: Cross-sectional study. PATIENT(S): Cohort of 26, 898 female twins aged 20-60 years at interview, who participated in either of two surveys (1998-2002 or 2005-2006). INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Endometriosis diagnosis in the Swedish National Inpatient Registry (IPR). RESULT(S): The self-reported endometriosis diagnoses and endometriosis-related questions from a nationwide population-based twin registry were linked with the IPR. Fairly good agreement was found between the self-reported and IPR data on endometriosis. The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves showed fairly good predictive ability of self-reported endometriosis to have a confirmed endometriosis diagnosis in the IPR with an area under the curve (AUC) 0.79 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-0.81). Further, the predictive ability increased to AUC 0.89 (95% CI, 0.88-0.90) when there was additional information about infertility and age. CONCLUSION(S): Our results indicate that self-reported data on endometriosis are moderately accurate and may be useful in studies when register data are not available.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the validity of self-reported endometriosis and to improve the reliability of questionnaires by including endometriosis-related questions. DESIGN: Analysis of survey questionnaire data. SETTING: Cross-sectional study. PATIENT(S): Cohort of 26, 898 female twins aged 20-60 years at interview, who participated in either of two surveys (1998-2002 or 2005-2006). INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Endometriosis diagnosis in the Swedish National Inpatient Registry (IPR). RESULT(S): The self-reported endometriosis diagnoses and endometriosis-related questions from a nationwide population-based twin registry were linked with the IPR. Fairly good agreement was found between the self-reported and IPR data on endometriosis. The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves showed fairly good predictive ability of self-reported endometriosis to have a confirmed endometriosis diagnosis in the IPR with an area under the curve (AUC) 0.79 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.77-0.81). Further, the predictive ability increased to AUC 0.89 (95% CI, 0.88-0.90) when there was additional information about infertility and age. CONCLUSION(S): Our results indicate that self-reported data on endometriosis are moderately accurate and may be useful in studies when register data are not available.
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