How Accurate Is Male Recall of Reproductive Information?

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...

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Published in:American journal of epidemiology 1998-10, Vol.148 (8), p.806-809
Main Authors: Coughlin, Michael T., E.LaPorte, Ronald, O‘Leary, Leslie A., A.Lee, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Case-Control Studies
Cryptorchidism - surgery
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Male
Male genital diseases
Medical sciences
men
Men - psychology
Mental Recall
Non tumoral diseases
questionnaires
recall
Reproducibility of Results
Reproductive History
Research Design
Sexual Behavior
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
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Summary: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
ISSN:0002-9262
1476-6256
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009702