Development and Validation of the Epidemiological Tattoo Assessment Tool to Assess Ink Exposure and Related Factors in Tattooed Populations for Medical Research: Cross-sectional Validation Study.

Milena Foerster Lucas Dufour Wolfgang Bäumler Ines Schreiver Marcel Goldberg Marie Zins Khaled Ezzedine Joachim Schuz

Published in: JMIR formative research (2023)

The final version of the EpiTAT contains 21 items and uses hand surface as a visual unit of measurement. Likert scales are used to assess color and coverage as a proportion of the total tattoo area. The overestimation of tattoo size by self-reporting merits further research to identify potential influential factors or predictive patterns that could be considered when calculating exposure.

Keyphrases

cross sectional
adverse drug
risk assessment
psychometric properties
human health