Do you have any ideas on how to ask people about outcomes,
David Burns is one of the people who popularized CBT by writing the Feeling Good Handbook. He developed standardized tests to measure a variety of psychiatric questionnaires to score whether a person has depression, generalized anxiety disorders or other illnesses. Those tests are designed so that a patient can fill them out without supervision and they provide a good measure of the severity of an illness.
David Burns advocates with with his paradigm of doing psychology that he calls TEAM that psychologists should use those scores as a guideline to treat patients. TEAM is completely paper based but I think that system is valuable. I have never seen it in practice but I think the arguments that David Burns makes for going from CBT to TEAM make sense.
I also think that you can ask questions about problems such as back pain or an allergy in a way where someone who suffers from the illness will give different answers if he cures then when he isn’t cured.
I would also assume that health goals such as losing weight or stopping smoking have clear enough outcomes that you can find out whether the intervention worked by asking a patient well crafted questions.
While we are at the time lines, I would also ask again after 2 years, 3 years and 5 years to seek data on more long-term effects of an invention. It’s valuable data for a subject like weight loss or smoking cessation but unfortunately calibration for those claims won’t be available at the start of the project to allow patients to make purchasing decision based on them.
David Burns is one of the people who popularized CBT by writing the Feeling Good Handbook. He developed standardized tests to measure a variety of psychiatric questionnaires to score whether a person has depression, generalized anxiety disorders or other illnesses. Those tests are designed so that a patient can fill them out without supervision and they provide a good measure of the severity of an illness.
David Burns advocates with with his paradigm of doing psychology that he calls TEAM that psychologists should use those scores as a guideline to treat patients. TEAM is completely paper based but I think that system is valuable. I have never seen it in practice but I think the arguments that David Burns makes for going from CBT to TEAM make sense.
I also think that you can ask questions about problems such as back pain or an allergy in a way where someone who suffers from the illness will give different answers if he cures then when he isn’t cured.
I would also assume that health goals such as losing weight or stopping smoking have clear enough outcomes that you can find out whether the intervention worked by asking a patient well crafted questions.
While we are at the time lines, I would also ask again after 2 years, 3 years and 5 years to seek data on more long-term effects of an invention. It’s valuable data for a subject like weight loss or smoking cessation but unfortunately calibration for those claims won’t be available at the start of the project to allow patients to make purchasing decision based on them.