Open AccessThe validity of self-reported smoking: a review and meta-analysis.
Author(s) -
Donald L. Patrick,
Allen Cheadle,
D. C. Thompson,
Paula Diehr,
Thomas D. Koepsell,
Susan Kinne
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.84.7.1086
Subject(s) - cotinine , medicine , observational study , meta analysis , clinical psychology , environmental health , psychology , nicotine , demography , sociology
The purpose of this study was to identify circumstances in which biochemical assessments of smoking produce systematically higher or lower estimates of smoking than self-reports. A secondary aim was to evaluate different statistical approaches to analyzing variation in validity estimates.
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