Author: National Institute of Mental Health

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9781333812195

Excerpt from Annual Report of Program Activities, Vol. 2: National Institute of Mental Health; Fiscal Year 1973 The preparation and translation of data collection schedules of this kind with collaboration of psychiatrists from nine centers is, in itself, a significant contribution to the methodology available to future cross-cultural studies. In evaluating the applicability and reliability of the schedules, two findings were especially significant. First, it was possible to use the same standard ized mental status interview (in translation where necessary) in all of the collaborating centers and reliability of ratings within each of the centers was high. The reliability of the ratings across centers was at a lower but still acceptable level. Because history and social description data had to be collected in different ways in the different centers, and because these data depend so much for their psychiatric significance on the cultural milieu, it was more difficult to evaluate the comparability of these kinds of information from center to center. However, the schedules provided a useful means of collecting these data and represent a first step towards the development of comparable methodology in this area as well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.