When patients contribute to the choice of treatment.…
✍ Scribed by Christiane Robert-Tissot; Bertrand Cramer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
To explore an alternative solution more appropriate to clinical standards than random assignment, 42 mothers consulting for a functional (sleep, feeding) or behavior problem of their infant were given the choice between two forms of mother-infant psychotherapy (Psychodynamic or Interaction Guidance). Clinicians, blind to mother's choice, followed a systematic indication procedure and provided a therapeutic recommendation. Results revealed a very high agreement between mother's choice and therapists' recommendation. Examination of patient and pretreatment variables showed no major differences between the two groups resulting from a choice of treatment procedure. This procedure proved to ensure internal validity of the data and was also able to guarantee external validity. Discussion focuses on the methodological and clinical implications of the findings that support the consideration of the patient as an active participant to his/her treatment.
RESUMEN: Para explorar una solucio ´n alterna ma ´s apropiada a las normas clı ´nicas que a las asignaciones al azar, a 42 madres que consultaban sobre un problema funcional (suen ˜o, alimentacio ´n) o de conducta de sus infantes, se les dio la posibilidad de escoger entre dos formas de sicoterapia materno-infantil (sicodina ´mica o guı ´a de interaccio ´n). Los clı ´nicos, que desconocı ´an la seleccio ´n hecha por las madres, siguieron un procedimiento sistema ´tico de indicacio ´n y proveyeron una recomendacio ´n terape ´utica. Los resultados revelaron un gran nu ´mero de concordancias entre la eleccio ´n de las madres y la recomendacio ´n de los terapistas. Un examen de las variables de paciente y pretratamiento no mostro ´mayores diferencias entre los dos grupos como resultado de una eleccio ´n de procedimiento en el tratamiento. Este procedimiento sirvio ´para asegurar la validez de la informacio ´n y fue tambie ´n capaz de garantizar validez externa. La discusio ´n se enfoca en las implicaciones metodolo ´gicas y clı ´nicas de los hallazgos lo cual apoya la consideracio ´n del paciente como un participante activo dentro de su tratamiento.
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