| Document ID (ISN) | 103426 |
| CIS number |
04-321 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0271-3586 - American Journal of Industrial Medicine |
| Year |
2004 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Adegoke O.J., Blair A., Shu X.O., Sanderson M., Addy C.L., Dosemeci M., Zheng W. |
| Title |
Agreement of job-exposure matrix (JEM) assessed exposure and self-reported exposure among adult leukemia patients and controls in Shanghai |
| Bibliographic information |
Mar. 2004, Vol.45, No.3, p.281-288. 25 ref. |
| Abstract |
Estimating a person's history of occupational exposure in case-control studies is often difficult. This study evaluates the agreement between self-reported occupational exposures and job-exposure matrix (JEM) exposure assessment for participants of a case-control study of 486 leukaemia subjects and 502 healthy controls in Shanghai (China). The sensitivities for self-reported exposures ranged from 0.75 to 0.98. That for pesticide exposure was 0.44 in subjects >51 years old. Variations in agreement for benzene exposure between males and females as well as between the direct interview and surrogate interview subgroups were observed. However, the overall agreement between self-reported exposures and JEM assessment was good. The levels of agreement observed in this study suggest that self-reported exposures are a suitable method for assessing occupational exposures in this population. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
subjective assessment; job-exposure relation; leukaemia |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
China; benzene; pesticides; reliability; comparative study; case-control study; sex-linked differences; statistical evaluation; exposure evaluation |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Leukaemia
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