Rating affective flattening from videotaped interviews
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R W Waltrip1, M E Strauss, A Summerfelt
1Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore 21228.
Abstract:
Semistructured interviews with 28 schizophrenic patients were videotaped. The affective flattening section of the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) was rated after each interview. At a later date, each videotape was rated by three raters as well as the interviewer. Reliability was estimated within and across rating conditions by intraclass correlation. Comparison of reliability scores across rating conditions indicated that the videotape medium had little effect on the ability of raters to rate affective flattening similarly.
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