. 2024 Oct 18;10(21):e39544. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39544

Table 5.

Agreement between self-sampling and physician-sampling in each age group.

Characteristics	Clinician-sampling		Self-sampling		Both positive	Both negative	Clinician-sampling positive and self-sampling negative	Clinician-sampling negative and self-sampling positive	Agreement(%)	95%CI	Kappa value	p- value	95%CI
Age(yr)	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Both positive	Both negative	Clinician-sampling positive and self-sampling negative	Clinician-sampling negative and self-sampling positive	Agreement(%)	95%CI	Kappa value	p- value	95%CI
25–30	78	326	89	315	75	312	3	14	95.79	(0.934,0.974)	0.872	0.000	(0.813,0.931)
31–40	268	1506	323	1451	247	1430	21	76	94.53	(0.934,0.955)	0.803	0.000	(0.766,0.840)
41–50	230	1521	275	1476	211	1457	19	64	95.26	(0.942,0.962)	0.808	0.000	(0.769,0.847)
51–65	266	1222	309	1179	242	1155	24	67	93.88	(0.926,0.950)	0.804	0.000	(0.765,0.843)
Total	842	4575	996	4421	775	4354	67	221	94.68	(0.941,0.953)	0.812	0.000	(0.790,0.834)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval.