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National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule

Archives of General Psychiatry · 1981 · Vol. 38(4) · pp. 381–381

Lee N. Robins✉(Washington University in St. Louis)

Abstract

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).

Psychiatric care and mental health services Mental Health and Psychiatry Schizophrenia research and treatmentEpidemiologyMedical diagnosisMental healthResearch Diagnostic CriteriaPsychiatryTest (biology)PsychologyScheduleMedicineClinical psychology

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Mental DisordersHumansInterview, PsychologicalNational Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)United StatesUnited States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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