Age At Menarche: Accuracy of Recall After Thirty-Nine Years

Document Type

Article

Authors

Albert Damon, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carl Jay Bajema, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, Michigan

Abstract

Among 143 women whose menarcheal age was documented during a longi­tudinal growth study, recall 39 years after the event gave the following results: menarche was recalled as 0.2 years earlier than the actual date (p<0.05), the standard deviation of recalled age was 0.3 years larger (p < 0.01), and the coefficient of correlation, r, between actual and recalled age was 0.60 ± s.e. 0.05.

Recommended Citation

Damon, Albert and Bajema, Carl Jay (1974) "Age At Menarche: Accuracy of Recall After Thirty-Nine Years," Human Biology: Vol. 46: Iss. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol46/iss3/4