Abstract:Objectives: To study the long-term consistency in answers to questions on chronic respiratory symptoms of a standardised questionnaire and in the diagnosis of asthma established on the basis of the answers to these questions* M ethods: A comparison of data collected by means of a test and a retest after a one-year interval. Population: 246 subjects aged 16 to 23. Main outcome measure: Cohen's kappa as measure of agreement between the answers to the first and the second ques tionnaire. Results: Cohen's kappa va… Show more
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