To achieve reliability my idea was to give the patient a questionnaire before a structured interview. The idea is that the patient would answer the questionnaire, first and then the interview would begin. The clinician would then begin the structured interview and compare both sets of answers given by the patient. If the patients view of his or herself’s condition obstructs their answers on the questionnaire, the structured interview would help the clinician make a more accurate diagnoses. This provides internal reliability. The other way to achieve reliability would to invite another clinician to sit in on the structured interview. After the interview they could then discuss their notes on the patient to make sure both clinicians had a similar
