Towards text mining therapeutic change: A systematic review of text-based methods for Therapeutic Change Process Research.

ABSTRACT: Therapeutic Change Process Research (TCPR) connects within-therapeutic change processes to outcomes. The labour intensity of qualitative methods limit their use to small scale studies. Automated text-analyses (e.g. text mining) provide means for analysing large scale text patterns. We aimed to provide an overview of the frequently used qualitative text-based TCPR methods and assess the extent to which these methods are reliable and valid, and have potential for automation. We systematically reviewed PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science to identify articles concerning change processes and text or language. We evaluated the reliability and validity based on replicability, the availability of code books, training data and inter-rater reliability, and evaluated the potential for automation bas

SUBMITTER: Smink W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894756 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature