title: Reporting by parents of longstanding illness in their adolescent children.
abstract: Parents' proxy reports of longstanding illness in their 15 year children are compared with the young people's own reports, both overall and between different reporting contexts; mother alone, father alone and both parents together. Parents over-report longstanding, but not limiting longstanding, illness in comparison to self report. There is no evidence of differential over-reporting by reporting context, but a number of differences are found in the likelihood of disagreement between these reporting contexts. The gender of the young person influences the relationship between proxy and self reports.
authors: MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Glasgow, Scotland.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Ecob
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Macintyre
authors: P
authors: P
authors: West
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015982:Bias; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology