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Table 2 Percent Agreement and PABAKs for 13 Health Conditions between Self and Spousal Proxy Responses

From: A pilot study among older adults of the concordance between their self-reports to a health survey and spousal proxy reports on their behalf

Survey items

Percent agreement between self and spousal proxies

Percent of spousal proxies not indicating the condition when the self did

Percent of spousal proxies indicating the condition when the self did not

PABAKs

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 Arthritis

86.7 %

11.1 %

2.2 %

0.73

 Cancer (other than skin)

93.9 %

2.0 %

4.1 %

0.88

 High Cholesterol

70.8 %

18.8 %

10.4 %

0.42

 Congestive Heart Failure

98.0 %

2.0 %

0.0 %

0.96

 Diabetes

93.9 %

4.1 %

2.0 %

0.88

 Glaucoma (treated by doctor)

93.6 %

4.3 %

2.1 %

0.87

 Hip Fracture

98.0 %

2.0 %

0.0 %

0.96

 Hypertension

83.3 %

12.5 %

4.2 %

0.67

 Chronic Lung Disease (emphysema or bronchitis)

98.0 %

0.0 %

2.0 %

0.96

 Osteoporosis

84.8 %

8.7 %

6.5 %

0.70

 Stroke

98.0 %

2.0 %

0.0 %

0.96

 Emotional, Nervous, or Psychiatric Problems

79.6 %

16.3 %

4.1 %

0.59

 Problems with Depression

87.5 %

6.3 %

6.3 %

0.75