2024-11-27 - MBH-CRG Meeting

116367006 | Psychological finding (finding) |

Clarify meaning

• How does a psychological finding differ from a mental finding and a psychological function differ from a mental function
• Is a psychological finding a more specific kind of mental finding?

Can we define these in a way that meets the URU criteria?

Google AI:

The URU criteria are a set of three criteria used to evaluate terminology, which stand for:

• Understandability: The meaning can be communicated and understood by an average health care provider without needing to refer to hidden or private meanings
• Reproducibility: Multiple people can understand and use the meaning in the same way
• Usefulness: The meaning has a demonstrable use or applicability to health or health care 

The URU criteria were part of the College of American Pathologists' evaluation metrics for terminologies.

Emotion v. Emotion State (finding) AND Mental phenomenon v. Mental State (finding)

Problem: There is currently no way to express the idea of emotional or mental phenomena, only mental states and emotional states.

Compulsive behavior (finding) and Personality disorder (disorder) are represented as a types of mental state findings

Propose new concepts:

• mental observable (observable)  or mental phenomenon (observable)
• mental finding (finding)
• emotion finding (finding) 

Discuss:

• Is there value in a distinct concepts to represent the specific idea of a "point in time" emotion and "point in time" mental state, or should the "state" qualifier be removed for clarity?
• Or... should both concepts exists - emotion finding + emotion state finding

Examples of concepts that are direct child concepts of Mental State along with some thoughts about why these may be better represented as child concepts of a more general | Mental finding (finding) | or | Mental phenomena finding (finding)| concept:

Note: Semantic tag has been removed when semantic tag is '(finding)'