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1: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1981 Apr;38(4):381-9.Click here to read Links

National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Its history, characteristics, and validity.

A new interview schedule allows lay interviewers or clinicians to make psychiatric diagnoses according to DSM-III criteria, Feighner criteria, and Research Diagnostic Criteria. It is being used in a set of epidemiological studies sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Epidemiological Studies. Its accuracy has been evaluated in a test-retest design comparing independent administrations by psychiatrists and lay interviewers to 216 subjects (inpatients, outpatients, ex-patients, and nonpatients).

PMID: 6260053 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]