validity A03 Flashcards
who conducted research support for gender bias?
Loring and Powell
what was interestingly found in their research ?
the gender bias was not among female psychiatrists.
what can diagnosis be influenced by as well as the gender of the patient?
gender of the clinician
describe Loring and Powell’s research
they randomly selected 290 male and female psychiatrists to read two cases on patients and then asked to offer their judgement using a diagnostic criteria.
what did Loring and Powell find?
they found that when the patients were described as males or given no info on their gender, 56% of the psychiatrists gave them a diagnosis of sz, but when patients were described as female only 20% were give a diagnosis of sz.
besides research support for gender bias, what is another limitation?
the consequences of co-moribidity
who investigated the consequences of co-morbidity?
Weber
what did Weber look at?
he looked at nearly 6 mil hospital discharge records to calculate co-morbidity rates.
what was the percentage of psychiatric and behaviour related diagnoses?
45%
what did Weber conclude?
having a psychiatric disorder resulted in lower medical care which affects the prognosis for sz patients
what did Weber’s study find?
a lot of people diagnosed with sz were also diagnosed with medical problems such as asthma.
define prognosis
the cause of a medical disorder
