Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Morgan, J.
Right arrow Articles by Sireling, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Morgan, J.
Right arrow Articles by Sireling, L.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Comparison of a System of Staff Prompting With a Programmable Electronic Diary in a Patient With Korsakoff's Syndrome

Janice Morgan

Barnet General Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Bamet, Herts. FN5 3DJ

Kevin McSharry

Barnet General Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Bamet, Herts. FN5 3DJ

Lester Sireling

Barnet General Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Bamet, Herts. FN5 3DJ

The effect of a programmable electronic diary was compared with a system of staff prompting on the attendance at Occupational Therapy groups of a patient with Kor sakoff's syndrome. Throughout the baseline period, the subject did not attend any groups. With the help of verbal prompting and other staff intervention, his attendance at groups increased significantly. By the fourteenth week he was attending all groups without verbal prompting apparently by using other environmental cues. The introduc tion of the electronic diary at this point was not found to increase the subject's atten dance at groups further or to reduce the need for verbal prompting presumably due to a "ceiling effect". These findings suggest that despite severe memory impairment, the patient with Korsakoff's syndrome is able to learn new information. The potential of the electronic diary for reducing staff input and its use in a less predictable setting need to be evaluated further.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 3, 225-229 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409003600308
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?