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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 141, No. 11: 1033-1037
Copyright © 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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A BRIEF ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Reliability of Reported Sunburn History in a Case-Control Study of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

Marianne Berwick1 and Ya-Ting Chen2

1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue, Box 60, New York, NY
2Ya-Ting Chen, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health New Haven, CT.

Reliability of reported sunburn history was assessed. Fifty cases and 50 controls were randomly selected from a population-based case-control study of skin examination practices and lethal melanoma in Connecticut. Eighty-two percent of these participants were interviewed from January 15, 1987, to May 15,1989, and reinterviewed in 1990. The kappa coefficients ranged between 0.37 and 0.57; the intraclass correlation coefficients were similar and ranged between 0.34 and 0.69. There were no significant differences found by case-control status or sex for any variables, and the degree of disagreement was similar for cases and controls and could be considered free of recall bias. Am J Epidemiol 1995;141:1033–7.

melanoma; recall; reproducibility of results; sunburn


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