Computer-assisted telephone administration of a structured interview for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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.
Baer
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Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129.
Brown-Beasley
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Sorce
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Henriques
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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