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Asking For Help is Helpful: Validation of a Brief Lifestyle and Mood Assessment Tool in Primary Health Care
Annals of Family Medicine, 05/12/09

Goodyear-Smith F et al. - The help question increased specificity without compromising sensitivity and reduced false positives, thereby increasing the positive predictive value. It allowed patients with comorbidities to prioritize issues they wished to address, indicate their readiness to change, promote self-determination, and give the clinician an indication of which topics to pursue.

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Felicity Goodyear-Smith, 05/12/09

We are now piloting the CHAT self-entry by patients via a waiting room touch screen. This streamlines the subsequent consultation with their physician who can address the lifestyle risk factors or mental health issues that the patients have identified as problematic and for which they are ready to consider change.