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Table 2 Characteristics associated with disagreement in self-report compared with hospital-recorded stroke

From: Moderate agreement between self-reported stroke and hospital-recorded stroke in two cohorts of Australian women: a validation study

 

1921-26 cohort

1946-51 cohort

   

OR (95% CI)

  

OR (95% CI)

Characteristic

Agreement (N = 1472) n (%)

Disagreement (N = 84) n (%)

Unadjusted

Adjusted

Agreement (N = 2102) n (%)

Disagreement (N = 17) n (%)

Unadjusted

Adjusted

Age (mean ± SE)

78.1 (±1.4)

78.4 (±1.56)

1.11 (0.96 to 1.30)

1.13 (0.97 to 1.32)

52.5 (±1.4)

52.2 (±1.7)

0.87 (0.62 to 1.22)

0.87 (0.62 to 1.23)

Education

        

High school education

814 (56.3)

52 (65.0)

1.00

1.00

1021 (48.8)

6 (35.3)

1.00

1.00

No formal education/primary only*

365 (25.2)

24 (30.0)

1.03 (0.62 to 1.70)

0.97 (0.58 to 1.63)

217 (10.4)

6 (35.3)

4.71 (1.50 to 14.7)

4.21 (1.33 to 13.32) §

Tertiary/trade qualification

268 (18.5)

4 (5.0)

0.23 (0.08 to 0.65)

0.24 (0.09 to 0.67)

854 (40.8)

5 (29.4)

1.00 (0.30 to 3.28)

0.80 (0.26 to 2.86)

Area of residence

        

Urban

658 (44.7)

34 (40.5)

1.00

1.00

795 (38.0)

6 (35.3)

1.00

-

Rural or remote

814 (55.3)

50 (59.5)

1.19 (0.76 to 1.86)

1.08 (0.68 to 1.72)

1295 (62.0)

11 (64.7)

1.13 (0.41 to 3.06)

-

Country of birth

        

Australia/other English

1377 (93.5)

77 (91.7)

1.00

-

1956 (93.1)

16 (94.1)

1.00

-

background

Other

95 (6.5)

7 (8.3)

0.76 (0.34 to 1.69)

-

146 (6.9)

1 (5.9)

0.84 (0.11 to 6.36)

-

Language spoken at home

        

English

1422 (96.7)

80 (95.2)

1.00

-

1991 (96.2)

16 (100)

-

-

Other

50 (3.4)

4 (4.8)

1.42 (0.50 to 4.04)

-

79 (3.8)

0 (0)

-

-

Recent poor mental

        

No

1354 (94.2)

70 (85.3)

1.00

1.00

    

Yes

83 (5.8)

12 (15.0)

2.80 (1.46 to 5.36)

2.41 (1.20 to 4.81)

222 (10.6)

5/16 (31.3)

3.85 (1.33 to 11.18)

3.20 (1.08 to 9.46) §

Proxy completion of survey

        

No

1453 (98.7)

80 (95.2)

1.00

1.00

-

-

-

-

Yes

19 (1.3)

4 (4.7)

3.82 (1.27 to 11.5)

2.36 (0.65 to 8.58)

-

-

-

-

  1. *In the 1946-51cohort, this category reflects women with no formal qualifications.
  2. Where stroke was self-reported, the mental health score from that same survey was used; for hospital-recorded strokes where stroke was not self-reported, the mental health score from the survey subsequent to the admission was used; where there was neither hospital-recorded nor self-reported stroke, the first available mental health score from the included surveys was used.
  3. p ≤ 0.01.
  4. §p < 0.05.
  5. CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio; SE = standard error.
  6. NB: bold text indicate statistically significant odds ratios.