Problems of Subject Inclusion in Psychiatric Research: Observations from Research with Psychiatric Inpatients |
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| Authors: | Mark H.B. Radford Ph.D. Yoshibumi Nakane M.D. Ross S. Kalucy MBBS FRANZCP Yasuyuki Ohta M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Behavioral Science, Bungakubu, Hokkaido University, Sapporo;*Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki;**Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia;***School of Allied Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki |
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| Abstract: | Abstract: In a recent study of psychiatric disturbance and decision making behaviour12, 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. |
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| Keywords: | psychiatric methodology psychiatric disturbance depression WHO |
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