We aimed to evaluate the reliability of the modified Rankin Scale applied telephonically compared with face-to-face assessment in clinically stable hospitalized patients with acute stroke. One hundred and thirty-one patients were interviewed twice by 2 certified nurses (unstructured interview). Half of the patients were randomized to be interviewed by telephone followed by the face-to-face asse...

To determine whether the mode of administration affected the psychometric properties of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD), 21 subjects with an affective disorder were administered two HAMD interviews on the same day, once via videoconference (at 384 kbit/s) and once face-to-face, by two independent interviewers. The interviewers were blind to the results of the other interview. The me...

Study participants include underserved individuals who were developmentally disabled, or suffering with an addictive disease. Face-to-face interviews consisted of thirteen questions were conducted at an in-patient behavioral health service center located in Brunswick, GA for a period of five weeks. The participants’ responses were electronically captured by interviewers using Survey Monkey. Ten...

BACKGROUND Semi-structural clinical interviews are very important in the area of mental health research and services. There were no studies of the reliability and validity of the Farsi (Persian) version of Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) in Iran. This study compares the results of face-to-face, semi-structural interview and clin...

Method: Data were derived from a large national sample of the United States population. Face-to-face surveys of more than 43,000 adults ages 18 years and older residing in households were conducted during the 2001–2002 period. Diagnoses of mood, anxiety, and drug disorders as well as personality disorders were based on the Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule—DSM-...

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...

BACKGROUND Exploring cultural differences may improve understanding about the social processes underlying the stigmatisation of people with mental illness. AIMS To compare public beliefs and attitudes about schizophrenia in Central Europe and North Africa. METHOD Representative national population surveys conducted in Germany (2011) and in Tunisia (2012), using the same interview mode (face...

Monitoring asthma in children in clinical practice is primarily performed by reviewing disease activity (daytime and night-time symptoms, use of reliever medication, exacerbations requiring frequent use of reliever medication and urgent visits to the healthcare professional) and the impact of the disease on children's daily activities, including sports and play, in a clinical interview. In such...

In our rushes exploitation task of TRECVID 2006, we propose a novel and interactive rushes video selection and editing method based on hierarchical browsing of key frames, where high level features of each key frame such as face, interview, person, crowd, building, outdoor, waterbody, and other information about redundancy and repetition are displayed at same time for helping editors to select ...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the interrater reliability and predictive validity of a set of diagnostic criteria for the prodrome of the first episode of schizophrenic psychosis when based on the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes. METHOD The subjects were patients referred for evaluation because of a suspected schizophrenia prodromal syndrome. For the reliability ...