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Likert-type scale, vhere 10 indicated "very likely to improve" and
1 indicated "not at all likely to improve."
Subjects* judgments of the severity of individual symptoms,
including 12 d^ressive and nine organic symptoms, were elicited.
The d^ressive symptoms, making up a D^ression Symptom Index,
included: sle^ disturbance, loss of appetite, wei^t loss,
hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, self-deprecation, sad affect,
loss of interest, social withdrawal, agitation-retardation, and
hypxxhondriasis. The symptoms comprising the Organic Symptom Index
were as follows: perseveration, tremor, dysarthria or slurring of
speech, progressive decline in cognitive functioning, anomia or
word-finding difficulty, confusion, concrete thinking, problems
with attentioryconcentration and recent memory loss. These symptom
indexes were identical to the ones used by Perlick and Atkins.
Subjects were asked to rate the degree to vhich the patient
manifested each of these symptoms, on a scale of mild, moderate,
severe, or not present. Ratings were coded numerically according
to the degree of severity (0 = not present, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate,
and 3 = severe) and were summed to create a Depression and Organic
Symptom Index score for each subject.
Hypothesis testing measures. In order to spjecifically test the
notion that confirmatory hypothesis testing affects the subjects'
results, the following questions were added to the original
measures: "Had you been conducting the interview, vhat questions
would you have asked the patient?" and "What specific hypxatheses do
you have about the patient that guide your line of questioning?".
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| Title | The role of hypothesis testing in age bias in clinical judgment - Page 27 |
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| Full text | 19 Likert-type scale, vhere 10 indicated "very likely to improve" and 1 indicated "not at all likely to improve." Subjects* judgments of the severity of individual symptoms, including 12 d^ressive and nine organic symptoms, were elicited. The d^ressive symptoms, making up a D^ression Symptom Index, included: sle^ disturbance, loss of appetite, wei^t loss, hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, self-deprecation, sad affect, loss of interest, social withdrawal, agitation-retardation, and hypxxhondriasis. The symptoms comprising the Organic Symptom Index were as follows: perseveration, tremor, dysarthria or slurring of speech, progressive decline in cognitive functioning, anomia or word-finding difficulty, confusion, concrete thinking, problems with attentioryconcentration and recent memory loss. These symptom indexes were identical to the ones used by Perlick and Atkins. Subjects were asked to rate the degree to vhich the patient manifested each of these symptoms, on a scale of mild, moderate, severe, or not present. Ratings were coded numerically according to the degree of severity (0 = not present, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate, and 3 = severe) and were summed to create a Depression and Organic Symptom Index score for each subject. Hypothesis testing measures. In order to spjecifically test the notion that confirmatory hypothesis testing affects the subjects' results, the following questions were added to the original measures: "Had you been conducting the interview, vhat questions would you have asked the patient?" and "What specific hypxatheses do you have about the patient that guide your line of questioning?". |
