American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 148, No. 8: 806-809
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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How Accurate Is Male Recall of Reproductive Information?
1Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
2Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Reprint requests to Dr. Michael T. Coughlin, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division of Endocrinology, 3705 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
The purpose of this study was to determine how well men recall reproductive information. By using a questionnaire, the authors surveyed men who had undergone orchiopexy for undescended testes and a group of matched control men, all of whom had had surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Piottsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (n= 77), and their spouses. Subjects were a random subset of a larger (n= 1, 212) male fertility study, which has been ongoing since 1992. In 1994, the spouses of men who participated in the study completed a short telephone survey that contained questions previously asked of their partners. Pearson correlations and kappa statistics were calculated to evaluate the accuracy of male recall of reproductive information. For the continuous measures, such as time and conception and frequency of intercourse, the correlations were high to moderate (r = 0.84 (p <0.001) and r = 0.45 (p < 0.001), respectively). Agreement between the men and their spouses on the majority of bivariate (yes/no) questions, such as those concerning the use of birth control, as measured by the kappa statistic, was moderate to very good (k ranged from 0.14 to 0.69). Statistics were similar for formerly cryptorchid and control men. Male participants‘ responses to questions about their reproductive histories were accurate as compared with the responses given by their spouses. In this sample from a large cohort study, men appeared to recall reproductive information with acceptable accuracy. Am J Epidemoil 1998; 148: 806–9.
men; questionnaires; recall; reproductive history
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