deVries M W
Department of Social Psychiatry, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1987 Sep;175(9):509-13. doi: 10.1097/00005053-198709000-00001.
This issue of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease reports fundamental research into the nature of mental disorders, using both new and traditional time-sampling approaches. The studies present convincing findings gathered in a variety of patient populations and demonstrate the utility of using quantitative and replicable methods in psychiatric research and clinical care. Research that adequately describes the person in context as well as the influence of situations on mental state has proved difficult. Methods such as the diary and Experience-Sampling Method that explore experiences in daily life overcome some of the shortcomings of previous psychiatric research strategies, such as reliance on retrospective recall and the failure to take the variability of mental state more fully into account. The studies in this issue introduce techniques for creating a data base for psychiatric research and clinical practice that is anchored in patient experience and behavior.
本期《神经与精神疾病杂志》报道了对精神障碍本质的基础研究，采用了新的和传统的时间抽样方法。这些研究展示了在各种患者群体中收集到的令人信服的结果，并证明了在精神病学研究和临床护理中使用定量和可重复方法的实用性。充分描述情境中的个体以及情境对精神状态影响的研究已被证明具有难度。诸如日记和经验抽样法等探索日常生活经历的方法克服了先前精神病学研究策略的一些缺点，比如依赖回顾性回忆以及未能更充分地考虑精神状态的变异性。本期的这些研究介绍了为精神病学研究和临床实践创建基于患者体验和行为的数据库的技术。
