Self-reporting of psychiatric illness in an online patient registry is a good indicator of the existence of psychiatric illness.

ABSTRACT: Online registries offer many advantages for research, including the ability to efficiently assess large numbers of individuals and identify potential participants for clinical trials and genetic studies. Of particular interest is the validity and utility of self-endorsement of psychiatric disorders in online registries, which, while increasingly more common, remain understudied. We thus assessed the comparability of prevalence estimated from self-endorsement of psychiatric disorders in one such registry, the Brain Health Registry (BHR) to prevalence computed from large US-based epidemiological studies and the degree to which BHR participants report psychiatric disorders consistently. We also examined the concordance between self-report and clinically determined diagnoses of various DSM-5 p

SUBMITTER: Sordo Vieira L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10024540 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature