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- Title
A medical record linkage analysis of abortion underreporting.
- Authors
Udry, J. Richard; Gaughan, Monica; Schwingl, Pamela J.; Van Den Berg, Bea J.
- Abstract
Inaccuracy in women `s reports of their abortion histories affects many areas of interest to re- productive health professionals and researchers. The identification of characteristics that affect the accuracy of reporting is essential for the improvement of data collection methods. A comparison of the medical records of 104 American women aged 27-30 in 1990-1991 with their self-reported abortion histories revealed that 19% of these women failed to report one or more abortions. Results of logistic regression analysis indicate that nonwhite women were 3.3 times as likely as whites to underreport. With each additional year that had elapsed since the first recorded abortion, women became somewhat more likely to underreport (odds ratio of 1.3), while each additional year of a woman's education slightly decreased the likelihood of under- reporting (odds ratio of 0.7).
- Subjects
ABORTION; REPRODUCTIVE health; BIRTH control; MEDICAL statistics; LOGISTIC regression analysis; MEDICAL personnel
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1996, Vol 28, Issue 5, p228
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135842