iPad-assisted measurements of duration estimation in psychiatric patients and healthy control subjects.

Handheld devices with touchscreen controls have become widespread in the general population. In this study, we examined the duration estimates (explicit timing) made by patients in a major general hospital and healthy control subjects using a custom iPad application. We methodically assessed duratio...

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Autores principales: Irene Preuschoff, Helge H Müller, Wolfgang Sperling, Teresa Biermann, Matthias Bergner, Johannes Kornhuber, Teja W Groemer
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/632ab0a4f42c4336837ef99d52450113
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Sumario:Handheld devices with touchscreen controls have become widespread in the general population. In this study, we examined the duration estimates (explicit timing) made by patients in a major general hospital and healthy control subjects using a custom iPad application. We methodically assessed duration estimates using this novel device. We found that both psychiatric and non-psychiatric patients significantly overestimated time periods compared with healthy control subjects, who estimated elapsed time very precisely. The use of touchscreen-based methodologies can provide valuable information about patients.