Content Reliability Of a Structured Psychiatric Interview

摘要: Introduction The clinical history obtained from the patient and his family furnishes essential information for psychiatric diagnosis, evaluation, treatment planning. Moreover interview is regarded by many as a therapeutic process, which, when skillfully employed, may guide examiner to an understanding of significant dynamics conflicts patient. Information derived sources also widely utilized in research assumed possess sufficient reliability be meaningful scientific purposes. However, several studies have shown that patient's account illness, symptoms, past often contradictory.. 4,7,15,16 Further, usual situation, individual physicians tend ask different questions their own personal style, emphasize various topics unequally, record idiosyncratic ways. 2,10,13 These practices compounded difficulties patients, interpretation