期刊
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
卷 45, 期 2, 页码 187-192出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.12.024
关键词
Adolescent Males; Recanting; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Self-Reports
资金
- National Institutes of Health-NICHD: (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) [RO1 HD036948]
- Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture [ILLU-45-0366]
Purpose: Self-reports are the standard measure of STD history used in survey research. We explored to what extent self-reports of ever having an STD are recanted in a follow-up data collection. Methods: Using the National Survey of Adolescent Males (NSAM), we assessed consistency over time in self-reports of ever having an STD in a sample of young men transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood (aged 15-26 years), a population in which STDs are particularly prevalent. Results: Approximately 7% of all sexually experienced young men rescinded STD self-reports over time. Thus, self-reports at one point in time likely underestimate true STD history, using earlier self-reports as the criterion. Among men who ever report an STD, 94-98% recant their reports in later waves. Conclusions: Knowledge of the extent of underreporting can potentially be used to adjust cross-sectional estimates of STDs based on survey self-reports. These study findings move us one step closer to estimating just how much underreporting of STDs in self-reports is. (c) 2009 Society for Adolescent Medicine. All rights reserved.
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