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The Chicago Hallucination Assessment Tool (CHAT)

About the CHAT

The Chicago Hallucination Assessment Tool (CHAT) is a semi-structured interview designed to gather quantitative, and optionally qualitative, information regarding the severity of hallucinatory experiences. The target population for its use is psychiatric patients. The CHAT is structured in two primary parts. The first is a series of screening questions for hallucinatory experiences in each sensory modality to determine which types of unusual perceptual experiences across the five senses may be hallucinations and should be assessed further. Second, follow-up questions solicit detailed information to help clarify whether experiences are hallucinations and then to quantify their severity. Severity is quantified within each sensory modality as a sum of the item scores, and can also be broken down to scores along three dimensions: Physical, Cognitive, and Emotional severity. See User Guide for more information.

If you use the CHAT, please cite:

Kern et al., (2015). Exchange the magnifying glass for a microscope: The Chicago Hallucination Assessment Tool (CHAT). Schizophrenia Bulletin, 41(suppl 1)., S110.

CHAT Materials

INFORMATION:
CHAT User Guide
CHAT Psychometrics

PRIMARY FORMS:
CHAT Modality Screening
CHAT Follow-up FULL
CHAT Follow-up LITE
CHAT Scoring Sheet

SUPPLEMENTAL/OPTIONAL FORMS:
CHAT Preliminary Questions
CHAT Impression
CHAT Chronicity Rating



Hallucination Research Links

CHAT senior author Dr. Sarah Keedy's home page

International Consortium on Hallucination Research

Hearing the Voice project

Hearing Voices Network Chicago Branch




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