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. 2023 Jan 11;7:e42158. doi: 10.2196/42158

Table 2.

Descriptive and quality measures of 3 different measurement units to measure tattoo surface and coverage.


Values, mean (SD) Values, median (IQR) P valuea AA-ICCb CA-ICCc Kendall τ
Tattoo size (cm2)

Hand surface (n=32) <.001 0.71 0.85 0.72


Self-assessment 1768 (1574) 1324 (467-2589)





Validation 930 (1047) 403 (124-1550)




Credit card (n=33) .56 0.89 0.89 0.82


Self-assessment 734 (1222) 277 (185-716)





Validation 677 (1112) 217 (93-487)




Body schemes (n=32) <.001 0.64 0.82 0.69


Self-assessment 2301 (2197) 1531 (708-2450)





Validation 923 (1334) 310 (192-1123)



Coverage (%) 

Hand surface (n=32) .18 0.34 0.35 0.26


Self-assessment 52 (23) 51 (39-66)





Validation 46 (20) 46 (25-63)




Credit card (n=33) .05 0.70 0.72 0.59


Self-assessment 50 (28) 52 (26-69)





Validation 44 (21) 45 (29-61)




Body schemes (n=32) .47 0.67 0.67 0.52


Self-assessment 52 (21) 52 (41-68)





Validation 50 (21) 50 (34-67)



aP values calculated via 2-tailed t tests for dependent samples.

bAA-ICC: absolute agreement intraclass correlation coefficient.

cCA-ICC: consistency of agreement intraclass correlation coefficient.