Development of the Auditory Hallucinations interview Guide
In 1991, the second author spent 1 year as a visiting faculty member with the symptom Management Faculty Group at the university of California , San fRansico .IN 1992,the first two authors decided to focus their research using symptom management to help individuals with schizophrenia who have persistent AH learn how to manage their symptoms. Few descriptions of the experience of AH existed in the literature, and most standardized psychiatric interviews asked few question about AH.
The first part of the nursing process is assessment , and no evidencebased guidelines existed for nursing assessment of the experience of AH. Without evidence-based guidelines,a qualitative exploration is needed to determine variable of interest . Using all the descriptions of AH found in the literature , the dimension of the experience were assembled to create an interview schedule to guide a qualitative study of the experience of AH. This interview guide was used to answer the following research question :What is the experience of having persistent AH for individuals with schizophrenia? The creation of this interview guide was part of a larger pilot study that tested the 10-session Behavior Management of auditory hallucination Course