Web-based training and interrater reliability testing for scoring the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Despite the importance of establishing shared scoring conventions and assessing interrater reliability in clinical trials in psychiatry, these elements are often overlooked. Obstacles to rater training and reliability testing include logistic difficulties in providing live training sessions, or mailing videotapes of patients to multiple sites and collecting the data for analysis. To address some of these obstacles, a web-based interactive video system was developed. It uses actors of diverse ages, gender and race to train raters how to score the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and to assess interrater reliability. This system was tested with a group of experienced and novice raters within a single site. It was subsequently used to train raters of a federally funded multi-center clinical trial on scoring conventions and to test their interrater reliability. The advantages and limitations of using interactive video technology to improve the quality of clinical trials are discussed.

publication date

  • August 30, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Inservice Training
  • Internet
  • Patient Simulation
  • Personality Inventory
  • Psychometrics
  • Video Recording

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2590758

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 52149090109

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.03.001

PubMed ID

  • 18760843

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 161

issue

  • 1