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Problems of Subject Inclusion in Psychiatric Research: Observations from Research with Psychiatric Inpatients
Author(s) -
Radford Mark H.B.,
Nakane Yoshibumi,
Kalucy Ross S.,
Ohta Yasuyuki
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1991.tb01176.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , inclusion (mineral) , psychology , subject (documents) , psychiatric diagnosis , psychiatric assessment , clinical psychology , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , social psychology , library science , computer science
In a recent study of psychiatric disturbance and decision making behaviour 12 , it was observed that a significant number of psychiatric inpatients experienced difficulties in addressing themselves to the experimental tasks at hand. Despite the large number of studies that have used psychiatric inpatients as subjects, little, if any mention has been made of these difficulties. The following report describes the difficulties that have been observed in the above research project, and examines their possible implications for clinical assessment, research, and for clinical investigations and evaluation of treatment regimes (e.g. effectiveness of particular drug therapies), which use psychiatric inpatient populations as subject sources.