Am J Psychiatry 1993; 150:1737-1738
Copyright © 1993 by American Psychiatric Association
Computer-assisted telephone administration of a structured interview for obsessive-compulsive disorder
L Baer, MW Brown-Beasley, J Sorce and AI Henriques
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129.
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.
