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Cognitive aspects of recalling and reporting health-related events: Papanicolaou smears, clinical breast examinations, and mammograms

Warnecke, R. B., Sudman, S., Johnson, T. P., O'Rourke, D., Davis, A. M., Jobe, J. B.·1997·American Journal of Epidemiology
DOI 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009226
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This paper reports an examination of cognitive processes used by 178 women aged 50 years and older in retrieving information about the frequency with which they received Papanicolaou smears, mammograms, and clinical breast examinations. Women were selected from a health maintenance organization in which they had been enrolled for at least 5 1/2 years. The literature suggested that reporting of regular events such as these kinds of tests is likely to be based on schemas, which is an estimation technique in which events are reported in a format with generic content. Thus, if the procedure is believed to occur annually, the respondent will report receiving five tests in 5 years. The study attempted to evaluate whether use of episodic recall, in which respondents are forced to report individual events, would be more accurate than reports based on estimation using a schema format. The results indicated that most of the errors occurred in Papanicolaou smear reporting, which is consistent with the literature, and that the fewest errors occurred with mammograms. Regardless of the questionnaire format, respondents persisted in using schemas based on the date of annual physical examination. Most reporting errors occurred because the interval between examinations was estimated incorrectly.

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Authors
Warnecke, R. B., Sudman, S., Johnson, T. P., O'Rourke, D., Davis, A. M., & Jobe, J. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Illinois Chicago (US)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Warnecke, R. B.
ORCID
Venue
American Journal of Epidemiology
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1997-12-01
Volume
146
Issue
11
Pages
982-992
ISSN
  • 0002-9262 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-6256
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009226
OpenAlex
W2128298959
Cited by
97
References
42
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
FWCI
7.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • American Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
U.S. Public Health Service (200-91-7035)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
Keywords
episodic memory retrieval, estimation error, schemas, Pap smear, mammography, clinical breast examination, health maintenance organizations, older women, interval estimation, questionnaire format
MeSH terms
Aged, Breast Neoplasms, Chicago, Cognition, Female, Humans, Mammography, Middle Aged, Personality Inventory, Surveys and Questionnaires, Mental Recall, Retrospective Studies, Self Disclosure, Vaginal Smears, Reproducibility of Results, Papanicolaou Test

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