Assessment of Subjective Distress by Patients' Self-Report versus Structured Interview
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 76 (1) , 35-39
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.1.35
Abstract
Comparison was made of symptom and behavior scores obtained by structured interview versus self-report using the Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale. Psychiatric hospital admissions were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 assessment groups, structured interview, self-report, or choice of procedure. Analysis indicated that patients in the self-report group reported significantly greater difficulty on 1 of 5 dimensions assessed by the scale. The results suggest that a self-report questionnaire form of the measure is a viable alternative to the structured interview.Keywords
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