TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Telephone versus in-person clinical and health status assessment interviews in patients with bipolar disorder
JO  - Harvard review of psychiatry
A1  - Revicki, D. A.
A1  - Tohen, M.
A1  - Gyulai, L.
A1  - Thompson, C.
A1  - Pike, S.
A1  - Davis-Vogel, A.
A1  - Zarate, C.
SP  - 75
EP  - 81
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
N2  - We evaluated the correspondence between in-person- and telephone interview-derived data on affective symptoms, health-related quality of life, disability days, and medication compliance in patients with bipolar disorder. Twenty-eight outpatients with DSM-III-R-documented bipolar disorder were randomly assigned to an initial in-person or telephone interview. An average of 4.0 days later, they were reassessed by the other interview method. <br><br>RESULTS indicate good to excellent agreement between telephone and in-person interviews on measures of mania (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.92) and depression symptoms (ICC = 0.90), suicide risk (kappa = 0.80), and alcohol use (kappa = 0.61), scores on the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (ICCs = 0.66-0.92), and medication compliance (ICCs = 0.50-0.66). Measures of bed disability days (ICC = 0.34) and restricted activity days (ICC = 0.66) showed less agreement. Telephone interviews are feasible and reliable for collecting data on psychiatric and other health-related outcomes in bipolar disorder patients.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1067-3229
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10673229709034730
ID  - ref1
ER  -