Do mental health service users reliably report their clinical diagnoses and health records? As researchers, we often use self-report checklists to ask about patient’s health histories and prior diagnoses, but are these data reliable? We recently conducted a follow-up study with a sample of female mental health service users and examined the temporal consistency of the results. It appears that self-report health records are generally reliable. Self-report checklists, as widely used in survey studies, can yield reliable health data. Social and health science researchers can employ such checklists to collect health background information of research participants, especially when clinical validation is not feasible or when hospital records are not accessible.
The results will be published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences (IF: 5.4).
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With Ching Yin Wong, Ming Yu Claudia Wong, Edo S. Jaya, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amos L., Görkem Derin, kadir uludağ, Riangga Novrianto, Bonnie Po, Anson Kai Chun Chau, Stanley K. K. Lam…
Wong, A. C. Y., Yuan, G. F., Wong, M. Y. C.*, Reyes, M. E. S., Jaya, E. S., Mukhtar, F., Lian, A. E. Z., Derin, G., Bengwasan, P. D., Kuriala, G. K., Uludag, K., Hartanto, S., Dewantary, N. I., Novrianto, R., Po, S. K., Chau, A. K. C., Lam, S. K. K., & Fung, H. W.* (in press). Do mental health service users reliably report their clinical diagnoses and health histories in epidemiological surveys? Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.
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