Table 1 Percent Agreement and PABAKs for 6 Functional Health Ratings between Self and Spousal Proxy Responses
Survey items | Percent agreement between self and proxy responses | Percent of proxy responses indicating worse health | Percent of proxy responses indicating better health | Percent of discrepancies ≥2 response rating categories | PABAKs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
How would you rate your …; would you say it was excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor? | |||||
Health | 56.0 % | 32.0 % | 12.0 % | 6.0 % | 0.45 |
Vision | 27.1 % | 35.4 % | 37.5 % | 16.6 % | 0.09 |
Hearing | 36.4 % | 40.8 % | 22.4 % | 16.3 % | 0.21 |
Memory | 32.7 % | 22.4 % | 44.9 % | 8.2 % | 0.18 |
Compared to 1 year ago, how would you rate your …; would you say that it is better now, about the same, or worse? | |||||
Health | 70.0 % | 18.0 % | 12.0 % | 0.55 | |
Memory | 75.5 % | 12.2 % | 12.2 % | 0.63 | |