Techniques of interview :
- Interviewer attitude : acceptance, understanding, sincerity
- Five types of interview questions : open – ended, facilitative, clarifying, comforting, direct.
Reliability of interview :
- Reliability :
- Information variance : refer to the variation in the questions the clinicians ask, the observation that are made during the interview, and the method of integrating the information that is obtained.
- Criterion variance : refer to variation scoring thresholds among clinicans
- Two types of reliability : Interrater or interjudge reliability, test – retest reliability
Validity of interview
- content validity
- Criterion – related validity
- Discriminant validity
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