Gives Unstructured Clinician May lead to freedom to creates different choose questions diagnoses by questions, deemed different which appropriate, clinicians helps depending who each guarantee on the gather relevance patient’s different to patient’s responses information presenting May forget problem to gather information about contextual and cultural factors May be consuming Structured Clinician May not be asks only a as reliable fixed set of and valid as questions assessment techniques that use tests Yields more and reliable Semistructured Clinician asks a because fixed set of the same questions and creates Diagnosis are relevant may be less by follow-up valid if each question questions clinician do not (Examples: cover a mental patient’s status symptoms, exam and issues, or the concerns Structured May be Clinical Interview Gives for the freedom May not be DSM) to as reliable choose and valid as assessment
Unstructured Clinician creates questions deemed appropriate, depending on the patient’s responses Structured Clinician asks only a fixed set of questions Semistructured Clinician asks a fixed set of questions and creates relevant follow-up question (Examples: a mental status exam and the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM) Gives freedom to choose questions, which helps guarantee relevance to patient’s presenting problem Yields more and reliable because the same are by each clinician Gives freedom to choose May lead to different diagnoses by different clinicians who each gather different information May forget to gather information about contextual and cultural factors May be May not be as reliable and valid as assessment techniques that use tests Diagnosis may be less valid if questions do not cover patient’s symptoms, issues, or concerns May be May not be as reliable and valid as assessment consuming
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