title: Reliability of sport fish consumption in the New York State Angler cohort study.
abstract: This paper examines the reliability of sport fish consumption data from the New York State Angler Cohort Study (NYSACS). NYSACS is a prospective cohort study conducted among New York State registered sportsmen and fishermen. Sport fish consumption information for New York State waters including the Great Lakes between June 1990 and June 1991 were collected through self-administered questionnaires, Spouses of male anglers were asked to provide their husbands' fish consumption during the same time period. A short telephone interview after the cohort was ascertained was also conducted among about 100 study participants for the purpose of quality control. Percentage agreement, kappa, and weighted kappa were calculated to evaluate the reliability of the interview using spousal data and reinterview data. Overall, for the total fish consumption between June 1990 and June 1991, percentage agreement, kappa, and weighted kappa between spousal data and primary response were 67.28%, 0.5087, and 0.6157, respectively. For reinterview data, weighted kappa ranged from 0.4510 to 0.5285 for season-specific analysis and kappa ranged from 0.4615 to 0.7006 for fish species-specific analysis. Spouses may be a good source of proxy data for fish consumption. The reliability of sport fish consumption data for the NYSACS study is acceptable, suggesting that the food frequency measuring methods employed are a viable approach to obtain retrospective sport fish consumption data from sportsmen and subsistence anglers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, 270 Farber Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Vena
authors.forename: Mya K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Swanson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005399:Fishes; D005506:Food Contamination; D006114:Great Lakes Region; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013177:Sports; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*