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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 127, No. 3

Articles | September 01, 1970

A Comparison of Psychiatric Symptom Frequency Under Narrative and Check List Conditions

STEWART MEIKLE; RICHARD GERRITSE

Am J Psychiatry 1970;127:379-382.

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Research psychologist and associate professor of psychology, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alta., Canada

Computer systems analyst, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alta., Canada

1971, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors investigated the effect of the frequency with which descriptive items are used when a check list is substituted for the usual narrative history. The results of the study suggest that rather than resulting in a loss of descriptive information the check list produced a sizable increase in the use of such terms.

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