Watkins C J, Burton P, Leeder S, Sittampalam Y, Wever A M, Wiggins R
Int J Epidemiol. 1982 Mar;11(1):62-6. doi: 10.1093/ije/11.1.62.
Epidemiological studies of respiratory illness in childhood have used the mother's recall of her child's respiratory illness experience as a measure of the frequency with which these illnesses occur. This paper explores the relationship between the diagnosis by the doctor of lower respiratory illnesses and the recall by the mother of the occurrence of these illnesses in a cohort of children in the first year of life. While there is a poor relationship between doctor diagnosis and maternal recall of these illnesses, the group of children reported by their mothers to have had bronchitis or pneumonia in the first year of life appear to suffer more respiratory illness than those children whose mothers recall no such illnesses.
儿童呼吸道疾病的流行病学研究将母亲对其孩子呼吸道疾病经历的回忆作为衡量这些疾病发生频率的一种方法。本文探讨了医生对下呼吸道疾病的诊断与母亲对一组一岁儿童中这些疾病发生情况的回忆之间的关系。虽然医生诊断与母亲对这些疾病的回忆之间的相关性较差，但那些被母亲报告在一岁时患过支气管炎或肺炎的儿童组，似乎比那些母亲回忆没有此类疾病的儿童更容易患呼吸道疾病。
