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Comparison of 7-day and repeated 24-h recall of type 2 diabetes

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Purpose

Patient reporting of type 2 diabetes symptoms in a questionnaire with a 7-day recall period was expected to be different from symptom reports using a 7-day diary with repeated 24-h recall based on cognitive theory of memory processes and prior literature. This study compared these two types of recall in patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Methods

One hundred and forty adults with T2D completed a daily diary for 7 days containing 9 T2D-related symptom and impact items. On day 7, patients completed the same items with a 7-day recall period. We examined the concordance of 7-day recall with summary descriptors of the daily reports and compared the scores and the discriminant ability of 7-day recall and mean of daily reports.

Results

Seven-day recall was most concordant with the mean of daily reports. The average difference in scores was small (range 0.22–0.77 on 11-point scale) and less than 0.5 standard deviations. For some items, the difference was positively associated with the variation in daily reports. The discriminant ability was comparable.

Conclusions

In this study population, a questionnaire with 7-day recall provided information consistent with a daily diary measure of the average week-long experience of T2D symptoms and impacts.

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Abbreviations

CCC:

Concordance correlation coefficient

DSC-R:

Diabetes symptom checklist-revised

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

HbA1c:

Glycated hemoglobin

PRO:

Patient-reported outcome

SF-36v2 Acute:

Short-form 36 health survey, version 2 Acute

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mona Martin RN MPA, Health Research Associates, Inc, for guidance in data collection, Shravanthi Gandra PhD MBA, Amgen, Inc, for her early participation in this study, and Denise Globe PhD and Xing-yue Huang PhD, Amgen Inc, for their contributions to planning the data collection. The data were made available through a study with multiple aims sponsored by Amgen, Inc. in a contract with Health Research Associates, Inc and Donald Patrick. Chiun-Fang Chiou is an employee of Amgen.

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  1. Health Outcomes Research Group, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    A. V. Bennett

  2. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    D. L. Patrick & P. Diehr

  3. Health Research Associates, Inc, Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

    D. M. Bushnell

  4. Amgen, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

    C. F. Chiou

  5. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    P. Diehr

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Bennett, A.V., Patrick, D.L., Bushnell, D.M. et al. Comparison of 7-day and repeated 24-h recall of type 2 diabetes. Qual Life Res 20, 769–777 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9791-5

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