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Table 2 Agreements between medical records and questionnaire on socioeconomic and health problems among poisoning patients

From: Agreement between questionnaire and medical records on some health and socioeconomic problems among poisoning cases

Socioeconomic and health variables

Q

Freq (%)

M

Freq (%)

P valuea

Concordance

rateb

Kappa (95% CI)

PABAK (95% CI)

Marital status

Married

39 (39)

30 (30)

>0.999

96%

0.93 (0.833 - 1.025)

0.92 (0.843 - 0.997)

 

Single

55 (55)

20 (20)

    
 

Divorced or widowed

6 (6)

3 (3)

    

Health problems

Chronic illness

18 (18)

13 (13)

0.180

91%

0.66 (0.454 - 0.862)

0.82 (0.708 - 0.932)

 

Recent illness

18 (18)

5 (5)

0.011

77%

-0.08 (-0.146 - -0.024)

0.54 (0.375 - 0.705)

 

Psychiatric illness

9 (9)

14 (14)

0.125

93%

0.66 (0.427 - 0.889)

0.86 (0.760 - 0.960)

 

At least one problem

37 (37)

31 (31)

0.307

76%

0.47 (0.287 - 0.647)

0.52 (0.353 - 0.687)

Socioeconomic problems

Academic

7 (7)

4 (4)

0.453

93%

0.33 (-0.042 - 0.702)

0.86 (0.760 - 0.960)

 

Family

27 (27)

16 (16)

0.052

73%

0.21 (0.006 - 0.422)

0.46 (0.286 - 0.634)

 

Marital

9 (9)

13 (13)

0.424

86%

0.29 (0.014 - 0.562)

0.72 (0.584 - 0.856)

 

Parental

7 (7)

9 (9)

0.754

90%

0.32 (0.004 - 0.639)

0.80 (0.682 - 0.918)

 

At work

7 (7)

2 (2)

0.180

91%

-0.03 (-0.067 - 0.003)

0.82 (0.708 - 0.932)

 

Boy-girl friends

13 (13)

10 (10)

0.549

89%

0.46 (0.192 - 0.729)

0.78 (0.657 - 0.903)

 

Financial

5 (5)

5 (5)

>0.999

92%

0.16 (-0.185 - 0.501)

0.84 (0.734 - 0.946)

 

Other problems

5 (5)

4 (4)

>0.999

91%

-0.05 (-0.078 - -0.016)

0.82 (0.708 - 0.932)

 

At least one problem

61 (61)

53 (53)

0.256

62%

0.23 (0.042 - 0.418)

0.24 (0.050 - 0.430)

Previous poisoning

(yes)

11 (11)

6 (6)

0.063

95%

0.68 (0.422 - 0.940)

0.90 (0.814 - 0.985)

  1. Q: questionnaire; M: medical records; Freq: frequency; a McNemar test, b Concordance rate (crude agreement) = number of instances reported by both data + number of instances not reported by both data/total number studied.