This report provides background information on the reporting of chronic conditions and physical impairments in the National Health Interview Survey and other health interview surveys. Relevant results from” methodological and evaluation studies conducted or sponsored by the National Center for Health Statistics are reviewed systematically; and some findings from other health interview surveys a...

There is widespread fear that applicants can fake during selection interviews and that this impairs the quality of selection decisions. Several theories assume that faking occurrence is influenced by personality and attitudes, which together influence applicants' motivation to show faking behavior. However, for faking behavior to be effective, interviewees also need certain skills and abilities...

Assessment: People with major depression were identified using the short form of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Diagnosis of depression required five or more depressive symptoms in the same two week period during the year preceding the interview. The short form of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale was used to assess the severity of depressive symptoms oc...

In the Winter 2008 issue of The Permanente Journal, we published an interview with five CEOs and Medical Directors (Table 1) from four public hospitals and systems, which was conducted at the Spring 2007 annual meeting of the National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH) in Boston, MA. This year, at the 2010 annual meeting of the NAPH, we revisited leaders from the same four hospitals and sys...

AIMS To explore variance in reporting continence information obtained by telephone survey with face-to-face clinician interview in a clinical setting. METHODS As part of a cross-sectional, epidemiologic study of incontinence prevalence among Black and White women aged 35-64 years, randomly selected households were contacted from geographic areas of known racial composition. Of 2,814 women who...

Pamela Ellen Ferguson and Debra Persinger, co-authors and co-editors of Sand to Sky-Conversations with Teachers of Asian Medicine (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse; 2008), interview Marianne Steele in Germany on her shiatsu and massage therapy work in various forms of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. The interview was conducted in a series of e-mail exchanges and telephone calls during late ...

EJPE’S NOTE: This interview was conducted by Clemens Hirsch and C. Tyler DesRoches. Hirsch is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. DesRoches is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the University of British Columbia, and a co-editor of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge social ontology: an...

The objective of this study was to investigate the acceptance of structured diagnostic interviews in clinical practice, as well as research, settings. Using the Diagnostisches Interview bei Psychischen Störungen (the modified and extended German version of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV), 10 certified interviewers conducted 183 structured interviews in different inpatient, ...