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. 2021 May 31;21:504. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06189-2

Table 4.

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

Clinician-collected samples
HPV positive HPV negative Total Cohens kappa Agreement
Self-collected n (%) n (%) n (%) κb (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)

a (16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68)

b (16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58)

c Agreement overall

d Agreement in women with at least one positive HPV test

e Cohen kappa overall (N = 505)

f Cohen kappa in women with at least one positive HPV DNA test (N = 161)