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Table 4 Agreement of self- and clinician-collected samples by HPV assay

From: Self-collected versus clinician-collected cervical samples for the detection of HPV infections by 14-type DNA and 7-type mRNA tests

  

Clinician-collected samples

    
  

HPV positive

HPV negative

Total

Cohens kappa

Agreement

 

Self-collected

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Îşb

(95% CI)

%

(95% CI)

14-type

HPV positivea

51 (10.1)

64 (12.7)

115 (22.8)

    

DNA

HPV negative

46 (9.1)

344 (68.1)

390 (77.2)

  

78.2c

(74.6–81.8)

assay

Total

97 (19.2)

408 (80.8)

505 (100.0)

0.34e

(0.25–0.44)

31.7d

(24.7–39.5)

7-type

HPV positiveb

15 (3.0)

21 (4.2)

36 (7.1)

    

mRNA

HPV negative

17 (3.4)

452 (89.5)

469 (92.9)

0.40e

(0.25–0.56)

92.5c

(90.2–94.8)

assay

Total

32 (6.3)

473 (93.7)

505 (100.0)

0.30f

(0.12–0.48)

28.3d

(17.2–42.3)

  1. a (16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68)
  2. b (16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58)
  3. c Agreement overall
  4. d Agreement in women with at least one positive HPV test
  5. e Cohen kappa overall (N = 505)
  6. f Cohen kappa in women with at least one positive HPV DNA test (N = 161)