Maternal smoking during pregnancy: A comparison between concurrent and retrospective self-reports

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-161

  Post, Ann ^a,b   Gilljam, Hans ^a,b   Bremberg, Sven ^b   Galanti, Maria R ^a,b  

^a Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias; Maternal smoking; Retrospective report

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL SMOKING; MEMORY DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CODING; PREGNANCY; RECALL; REGISTRATION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING HABIT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

EID: 43149105758     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00917.x     Document Type: Article

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