Purpose To examine the extent to which medical school interviewers consider perceptions of applicant personality traits during a semi-structured panel interview, the interrater reliability of assessments, and the impact of such perceptions on individual admission decisions. Method Semi-structured panel interviews were conducted with applicants to the Doctor of Medicine Program at the University...

BACKGROUND The Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) is often used in clinical trials to select patients and to assess treatment efficacy. The scale was originally published without suggested questions for clinicians to use in gathering the information necessary to rate the items. Structured and semi-structured interview guides have been found to improve reliability with other scale...

In this study, job expectations of X and Y generation teachers were tried to explained. This study is done by using “mixed search” model in which quantitative and qualitative techniques are used together. In this study, 218 participants took place and researchers applied “Job Expectation Scale” to these participants. Besides this, the questions of semi-structured “Expectation from the Job Inter...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances are commonly reported in the psychosis prodrome, but rarely explored in relation to psychotic experiences. AIMS To investigate the relationship between specific parasomnias (nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking) in childhood and later adolescent psychotic experiences. METHOD The sample comprised 4720 individuals from a UK birth cohort. Mothers reported on...

Design: Age-corrected lifetime morbid risk was estimated in adult first-degree relatives of affected probands and control subjects for selected disorders. Diagnostic data were gathered by semistructured interview (the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism), family history, and medical records. Rates of illness were corrected by validating interview and family history reports...

Quantitative ethnographic models are typically constructed using qualitative data that has been segmented and coded. While there exist methodological studies have investigated the effects of changes in coding on model features, segmentation received less attention. Our aim was to examine, a dataset comprised narratives from semi-structured interviews, different decisions population- individual-...

Method Participants were 316 ED patients. The EATATE part 1 (a semi-structured interview) was used to examine diagnostic cross-over in EDs. The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-2), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R), Oxford Risk Factor Interview (ORFI), the EATATE part 2 [used to assess obsessive-compulsive personality (OCPD) traits and impulsive behaviours] and four candidate genes (5-H...