Interview versus Self-Answer Methods of Assessing Health and Emotional Functioning in Primary Care Patients

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 937-948
Author(s):  
Nancy Amodei ◽  
David A. Katerndahl ◽  
Anne C. Larme ◽  
Raymond Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Emotional Functioning ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Screening Criteria ◽  
Practical Standpoint ◽  
Primary Care Patients ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data

The present study examined differences in health and emotional functioning when two different methods of gathering self-report data were used. Of 80 primary care patients who did not meet screening criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis, 44 were randomly assigned to have an interviewer read assessment items and record the participants' responses, and 36 were randomly assigned to have an interviewer read the items and have participants record their own responses directly on the test forms. There were negligible significant differences between the groups in reported symptomatology. From a practical standpoint, this suggests that the self-answer method is a more economical and efficient method of data collection since the data from more than one participant can be gathered at the same time. The findings also suggest that the measures in this study which were originally intended to be completed in a paper-and-pencil format can be used in a more traditional interviewer-administered format.

Conceptual Disruption

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara I. McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Cantril’S Ladder

In research using self-report measures, there is little attention paid to how participants interpret concepts; instead, researchers often assume definitions are shared, universal, or easily understood. I discuss the self-anchored ladder, adapted from Cantril’s ladder, which is a procedure that simultaneously collects a participant’s self-reported rating and their interpretation of that rating. Drawing from a study about sexual satisfaction that included a self-anchored ladder, four analyses are presented and discussed in relation to one another: (1) comparisons of sexual satisfaction scores, (2) variations of structures participants applied to the ladder, (3) frequency of terms used to describe sexual satisfaction, and (4) thematic analysis of “best” and “worst” sexual satisfaction. These analytic strategies offer researchers a model for how to incorporate self-anchored ladder items into research designs as a means to draw out layers of meaning in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods data. I argue that the ladder invites the potential for conceptual disruption by prioritizing skepticism in survey research and bringing greater attention to how social locations, histories, economic structures, and other factors shape self-report data. I also address issues related to the multiple epistemological positions that the ladder demands. Finally, I argue for the centrality of epistemological self-reflexivity in critical feminist psychological research. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684317725985

Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption; A Real Psychophysical Problem

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1027-1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. M. Gregson ◽  
Barrie G. Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Frequency Distributions ◽  
Know How ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Over Time

There are good practical reasons for wanting to know how much alcohol people consume, at what rate, and in what patterns over time. Various measures of consumption and their associated frequency distributions are described. Self-report data on alcohol consumption present problems of interpretation. A detailed rationale for the use of the self-report method by Gregson and Stacey (1980) is presented. Measurement problems arising with the method, emphasized by Skog (1981), are discussed.

Psychometric Properties of the HEXACO-100

Assessment ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kibeom Lee ◽  
Michael C. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Absolute Correlation ◽  
Self Report Data

Psychometric properties of the 100-item English-language HEXACO Personality Inventory–Revised (HEXACO-PI-R) were examined using samples of online respondents ( N = 100,318 self-reports) and of undergraduate students ( N = 2,868 self- and observer reports). The results were as follows: First, the hierarchical structure of the HEXACO-100 was clearly supported in two principal components analyses: each of the six factors was defined by its constituent facets and each of the 25 facets was defined by its constituent items. Second, the HEXACO-100 factor scales showed fairly low intercorrelations, with only one pair of scales (Honesty–Humility and Agreeableness) having an absolute correlation above .20 in self-report data. Third, the factor and facet scales showed strong self/observer convergent correlations, which far exceeded the self/observer discriminant correlations.

Acquisition of Self-Control of a Novel Muscular Activity with EMG and Video Feedback

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiji Koga
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Activity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Feedback Signal ◽  
Control Stage ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Report Data ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Report Data

To examine the acquisition of voluntary control of a novel muscular activity from the initial stage to the self-control stage, the m. auricularis posterior, which had generally degenerated and had nearly lost its function of drawing an auricle backward in the human body, was selected as a target muscle to be studied. One female undergraduate student who could not move her auricles intentionally was required to activate her left m. auricularis posterior and underwent rest, pretest, training, and posttest sessions once a day for five days. At the subject's request, the electromyograph (EMG) from her left m. auricularis posterior on an oscillograph was provided for her as the feedback signal on each training trial. The picture of her left ear on television was handled in the same way. The EMG measures indicated that the subject could learn to activate her left m. auricularis posterior differentially. The number of training trials on which the subject requested the feedback signals suggested that EMG feedback signal was more useful to her than the video and that the usefulness of the feedback signals varied as the training sessions advanced. It was also concluded from analysis of the self-report data that the acquisition process of self-control of a novel muscular activity could be divided into at least four stages.

Intensive Longitudinal Data Collection using Microinteraction Ecological Momentary Assessment (μEMA): Pilot and Preliminary Results (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Ponnada ◽  
Shirlene Wang ◽  
Daniel Chu ◽  
Bridgette Do ◽  
Genevieve Dunton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Ecological Momentary Assessment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Time Study ◽  
Longitudinal Data Collection ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Momentary Assessment

BACKGROUND Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) uses mobile technology to enable in-situ self-report data collection on behaviors and states. In a typical EMA study, participants are prompted several times a day to answer sets of multiple-choice questions. While the repeated nature of EMA reduces recall bias, it may induce participation burden. There is a need to explore complementary approaches to collecting in-situ self-report data that are less burdensome, yet provide comprehensive information on an individual’s behaviors and states. One new approach, microinteraction ecological momentary assessment (μEMA), restricts EMA items to single, cognitively simple questions answered on a smartwatch with single-tap answers; i.e., EMA is limited to only those answerable with a quick, glanceable microinteraction. However, the viability of using μEMA to capture behaviors and states in a large-scale intensive longitudinal data collection (ILD) study has not yet been demonstrated. OBJECTIVE This paper describes 1) the μEMA protocol currently used in the Temporal Influences on Movement and Exercise (TIME) Study conducted with young adults, 2) the interface of the μEMA app to gather self-report responses on a smartwatch, 3) qualitative feedback from participants following a pilot study of the μEMA app, 4) changes made to the main TIME study μEMA protocol and app based on the pilot feedback, and 5) preliminary μEMA results from a subset of active participants in the TIME Study. METHODS The TIME Study involves data collection on behaviors and states using passive sensors on smartwatches and smartphones along with intensive phone-based EMA, four-day hourly EMA bursts every two weeks among 250 people. Every day, participants also answer a nightly EMA survey. On non-EMA burst days, participants answer μEMA questions on the smartwatch assessing momentary states such as physical activity, sedentary behavior, and affect. At the end of the study, participants take part in a semi-structured interview to describe their experience with EMA and μEMA. A pilot study was used to test and refine the μEMA protocol for the main study. RESULTS Changes made to the μEMA study protocol based on pilot feedback included adjustments to the single-question selection method and watch vibrotactile prompting. We also added sensor-triggered questions for physical activity and sedentary behavior. As of June 2021, 81 participants completed at least six months of data collection in the main study. For 662,397 μEMA questions delivered, the compliance rate was 67.61% (SD = 24.36) and completion rate was 79.03% (SD = 22.19). CONCLUSIONS This study provides opportunities to explore a novel approach for collecting temporally dense intensive longitudinal self-report data in a sustainable manner. Data suggest that μEMA may be valuable for understanding behaviors and states at the individual level, thus possibly supporting future longitudinal interventions that require within-day, temporally dense self-report in the real world. CLINICALTRIAL Not applicable

Data Collection

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Drago Piechowski
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Disability Evaluation ◽  
Neuropsychological Testing ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Independent Medical Examination

This chapter focuses on data collection as part of the evaluation of disability, with emphasis on the specific methodology for obtaining data from various sources such as written records and documents, self-report data from the claimant, psychological testing and neuropsychological testing, and information from collaterals such as interviews and treatment providers including psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists. It also describes instruments commonly used in assessing psychopathology and cognitive functioning during disability evaluation. Finally, it considers formal assessment of the claimant's response style as an integral part of the independent medical examination.

Integrating a Performance-Based Observation Measure of Functional Status into a Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Aging

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Finlayson ◽  
Betty Havens ◽  
Margo B. Holm ◽  
Toni Van Denend
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data

ABSTRACTOver the past 15 to 20 years there has been discussion and debate in the gerontological literature about the relative merits of self-report versus performance-based observational (PBO) measures of functional status. In 2001 the Aging in Manitoba Longitudinal Study had the opportunity to add a PBO measure of functional status and use it together with two self-report measures on a sub-sample of 138 participants. The PBO measure that was used was the Performance Assessment of Self-Care Skills, Version 3.1 (Home). Using ranks of the proportion of participants who were independent in nine different tasks, no significant correlations were found between the performance measure scores and either of the self-report measures. This finding suggests that using self-report data rather than performance data could lead program developers and policy makers to different conclusions about the extent of need for assistance among older adults.

“Mit Computern kenne ich mich eigentlich nicht aus …”

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (09) ◽  
pp. 631-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Forkmann ◽  
H. Glaesmer ◽  
L. Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Patient Acceptance ◽  
Depression Assessment ◽  
Primary Care Patients ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Clear Presentation

SummaryObjective: Self-report data is increasingly gathered by electronic devices. The present study aimed at testing usability and patient acceptance of two administration modes (tablet vs. paper-pencil) in primary care patients _ 60 years. Material and methods: Two depression instruments were administered using a randomized crossover design (n = 193). Results: Patients positively evaluated the usability of the tablet (clear presentation, well manageable). Additionally, the majority of patients preferred the tablet over the paper-pencil mode (more suitable, less stressful and difficult). Tablet mode and increasing age were associated with increased response time. Age, somatic morbidity and formal education showed only weak associations with usability and acceptance. Conclusion: Socio-demographic variables such as increasing age and formal education and somatic morbidity do not lead to limitations of use. Clinical relevance: The study demonstrates high usability and acceptance of depression assessment by tablets in elderly patients.

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