Concurrent validity of a telephone-administered version of the GospelOak instrument (Including the SHORT-CARE)
N. Tunstall
Bok Engelsk 1997
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| Opplysninger | Objective. The aim of the study was to establish the concurrentvalidity of a telephone-administered version of the survey measuresutilized in the Gospel Oak studies, the core of which was the SHORT-CARE.Design. Comparisons were made between data obtained by administeringthe interview in its conventional, face-to-face form with thosegenerated by conducting it by telephone.Setting. A UK teaching hospital.Patients. Elderly subjects of both sexes, recruited from geriatricand psychogeriatric day hospitals.Measures. The Depression Diagnostic Scale, Dementia Diagnostic Scaleand Organic Brain Syndrome scale (all taken from the SHORT-CARE) andthe London Handicap Scale.Results. For depressive symptomatology, cognitive impairment,subjective memory impairment and handicap, intraclass correlationswere 0.86, 0.89, 0.83 and 0.70, respectively. The kappa coefficientfor agreement on case-level diagnosis of pervasive depression was0.79.Conclusions. These results indicate that the instrument is broadlyreliable when administered by telephone. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons,Ltd.
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