Acceptance of computerized compared to paper-and-pencil assessment in psychiatric inpatients.
In recent years various approaches to the application of computerized assessment in psychiatry have been reported. Patients' acceptance is important for reliability and validity of results. Comparisons with conventional paper-and-pencil tests are missing. The present study aimed to investigate the a...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 81 - 94 |
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Elsevier Science
January 2003
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