BACKGROUND Public health care increasingly uses outreach models to engage individuals who are marginalized, many of whom misuse substances. Problematic substance use, together with marginalization from the health care system, among homeless adults makes it difficult to assess their capacity to consent to medical care. Tools have been developed to assess capacity to consent; however, these tools...

When the randomized controlled trial is unfeasible, programme evaluators attempt to emulate the randomization process in observational studies by creating a control group that is essentially equivalent to the treatment group on known characteristics and trust that the remaining unknown characteristics are inconsequential and will not bias the results. In recent years, adjustment procedures base...

This research explored the effects of instructing first-semester nursing students in the use of focused reflection and articulation to promote clinical reasoning. Student volunteers were randomly assigned to four clinical groups. Two groups that received instruction in the use of focused reflection and articulation scored significantly higher on the practice measure of clinical reasoning, accou...

OBJECTIVE This qualitative study explored elements of artful practice of therapists practicing in mental health treatment settings. METHOD In-depth interviews were conducted with three occupational therapists practicing in mental health who were considered exemplars of artful practice. Themes pertaining to their perspectives and approaches to practice were synthesized from interview data. R...

In social psychological research the stage metaphor has fallen into disfavor due to concerns about bias, reliability, and validity. To address some of these issues, I employ a multidimensional partial credit analysis comparing moral judgment interviews scored with the Standard Issue Scoring System (SISS) (Colby and Kohlberg, 1987b), evaluative reasoning interviews scored with the Good Life Scor...

BACKGROUND The Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+ (PDQ-4+) is composed of a self-report and an interview, the Clinical Significance Scale, but no studies have reported joint findings. This study is the first to examine the diagnostic agreement between the Spanish version of the PDQ-4+ self-report and its corresponding interview. METHOD The sample comprised 235 psychiatric outpatients who...

OBJECTIVE Explore the interrater reliability of Thai version of Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders (T-SCID-II). MATERIAL AND METHOD Fifty-four psychiatric patients were assessed by seven psychiatrists. Each patient was interviewed independently and separately by two psychiatrists using T-SCID-II, with the second interview held within one to six weeks of the first. ...

To the Editor: In psychiatry, interview skills are considered core abilities [1], especially in managing difficult situations in psychiatric wards. Research has found that poor doctor-patient interviews led to increased errors and noncompliance in medicationtaking behavior. Furthermore, psychotic patients, owing to a lack of insight into their own conditions, tend not to comply with demands/req...