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

Table 3.

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


Values, mean (SD) Values, median (IQR) P valuea AA-ICCb CA-ICCc Kendall τ
Black or gray surface (cm2)

Hand surface (n=19) .005 0.44 0.55 0.7


Self-assessment 2178 (2078) 1796 (525-3053)





Validation 986 (968) 594 (183-1632)




Credit card (n=18) .28 0.87 0.87 0.78


Self-assessment 528 (519) 277 (139-693)





Validation 460 (532) 250 (72-858)




Body schemes (n=14) .004 0.69 0.82 0.78


Self-assessment 2986 (3027) 1663 (920-4123)





Validation 1382 (1731) 516 (135-2245)



Colored surface (cm2)

Hand surface (n=17) .02 0.28 0.35 0.65


Self-assessment 824 (899) 565 (170-1181)





Validation 320 (321) 221 (53-472)




Credit card (n=16) .87 0.95 0.94 0.66


Self-assessment 196 (246) 72 (49-324)





Validation 200 (297) 50 (21-257)




Body schemes (n=12) .12 0.29 0.33 0.42


Self-assessment 235 (285) 91 (36-402)





Validation 103 (108) 68 (12-191)



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.