TY - JOUR
T1 - A Comparison of Two Interview Schedules
T2 - The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime and the National Institute for Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule
AU - Hesselbrock, Victor
AU - Stabenau, James
AU - Hesselbrock, Michie
AU - Mirkin, Peter
AU - Meyer, Roger
PY - 1982/6
Y1 - 1982/6
N2 - Two structured interviews, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia—Lifetime (SADS-L) and the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS), were compared as methods of reducing information variance in the diagnostic process. Forty-two patients newly admitted to an alcohol treatment unit were randomly selected and were independently interviewed using the SADS-L and NIMH-DIS. The order of the interviews was random and they were separated by three to four days. Interrater reliability for each interview schedule was calculated using the k statistic and was found to be high. The degree of diagnostic concordance between the two interview schedules for several diagnostic categories was also found to be high.
AB - Two structured interviews, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia—Lifetime (SADS-L) and the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS), were compared as methods of reducing information variance in the diagnostic process. Forty-two patients newly admitted to an alcohol treatment unit were randomly selected and were independently interviewed using the SADS-L and NIMH-DIS. The order of the interviews was random and they were separated by three to four days. Interrater reliability for each interview schedule was calculated using the k statistic and was found to be high. The degree of diagnostic concordance between the two interview schedules for several diagnostic categories was also found to be high.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290060036007
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290060036007
M3 - Article
C2 - 7092500
AN - SCOPUS:0019982518
SN - 0003-990X
VL - 39
SP - 674
EP - 677
JO - Archives of General Psychiatry
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -
