title: Computer-assisted telephone administration of a structured interview for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
abstract: A computer-assisted telephone system using digitized human speech was developed to administer two rating scales for obsessive-compulsive disorder. For 18 patients, scores derived with this system agreed well with scores from human administration of the scales by telephone and paper-and-pencil scales returned by mail. This approach provides reliable, low-cost, and instantaneous data acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Brown-Beasley
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sorce
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Henriques
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003625:Data Collection; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000191:economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013689:Telephone / Q000191:economics