Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-gb8f7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T23:03:37.896Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Response of Phobic Patients to Direct Computer Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Anthony C. Carr  and
Anindya Ghosh
Anthony C. Carr
Affiliation:
99 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Anindya Ghosh
Affiliation:
99 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Computerized assessment which is objective, standardized and easily repeated has been shown to be acceptable to general psychiatric patients. Fifty-three subjects (43 phobics and 10 normals feigning phobias) showed no unusual apprehension in approaching this novel procedure; all were able to complete the computer interview. Furthermore, half of them claimed that they found the interview more acceptable and found it easier to communicate with the computer than with a clinician. Only nine patients preferred the clinician. The reasons for this are discussed.

Type
Papers
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 142 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 60 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Carr, A. C., Ancill, R. J., Ghosh, A. & Margo, A. (1981) Direct assessment of depression by microcomputer: A feasibility study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 64, 415–22.Google Scholar
Carr, A. C. & Ghosh, A. (1982) Accuracy of behavioural assessment by computer. British Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 65–69.Google Scholar
Coddington, R. & King, T. (1972) Automated history in child psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry, 129, 276–82.Google Scholar
Dove, G. A. W., Wigg, P., Clarke, J. H. C. et al (1977) The therapeutic effect of taking a patient's history by computer. Journal of Royal College of General Practitioners, 27, 477–81.Google ScholarPubMed
Greist, J. H., Gustafson, D. H., Stauss, F. F. et al (1973) A computer interview for suicide risk prediction. American Journal of Psychiatry, 130, 1327.Google Scholar
Greist, J. H., Klein, H. H., Van Cura, J. L. & Madison, M. A. (1973) A computer interview for psychiatric patients' target symptoms. Archives of General Psychiatry, 29, 247–53.Google Scholar
Guttman, L. (1947) The Cornell technique for scale and intensity analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 7, 247–55.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hilf, F. (1972) Partially automated psychiatric interviewing. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 155, 420–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lucas, R. W. (1974) The Development of a Computer-based System of Patient Interrogation. Ph.D. thesis (unpublished). University of Glasgow, Scotland.Google Scholar
Lucas, R. W. (1977) A study of patients' attitudes to computer interrogation. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 9, 69–86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, R. W., Mullin, P. J., Luna, C. B. X. & McIlroy, D. C. (1977) Psychiatrists and a computer as interrogators of patients with alcohol-related illnesses: A comparison. British Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 160–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marks, I. M. (1978) Living with Fear. New York, London: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Slack, W. V., Hicks, G. P., Reed, C. E. et al (1966) A computer based medical history system. New England Journal of Medicine, 274, 194–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Slack, W. V. & Van Cura, L. J. (1968) Patient reaction to computer-based medical interviewing. Computers and Biomedical Research, 1, 527–31.Google Scholar
Thurstone, L. L. & Chave, E. J. (1929) The Measurement of Attitude. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Weizenbaum, J. (1976) Computer Power and Human Reason. San Francisco: Freeman.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.