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- Title
Telepsychiatry: assessment of televideo psychiatric interview reliability with present- and next-generation internet infrastructures.
- Authors
Yoshino, Aihide; Shigemura, Jun; Kobayashi, Yuji; Nomura, Soichiro; Shishikura, Kurie; Den, Ryosuke; Wakisaka, Hitoshi; Kamata, Shiho; Ashida, Hiroshi
- Abstract
Objective: We assessed the reliability of remote video psychiatric interviews conducted via the internet using narrow and broad bandwidths. Method: Televideo psychiatric interviews conducted with 42 in-patients with chronic schizophrenia using two bandwidths (narrow, 128 kilobits/s; broad, 2 megabits/s) were assessed in terms of agreement with face-to-face interviews in a test–retest fashion. As a control, agreement was assessed between face-to-face interviews. Psychiatric symptoms were rated using the Oxford version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and agreement between interviews was estimated as the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Results: The ICC was significantly lower in the narrow bandwidth than in the broad bandwidth and the control for both positive symptoms score and total score. Conclusion: While reliability of televideo psychiatric interviews is insufficient using the present narrow-band internet infrastructure, the next generation of infrastructure (broad-band) may permit reliable diagnostic interviews.
- Subjects
INTERVIEWING in psychiatry; SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Publication
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2001, Vol 104, Issue 3, p223
- ISSN
0001-690X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0447.2001.00236.x