Reliability of the Psychosocial Axes of DSM-III in an Adolescent Population
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 150 (2), 228-234
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.150.2.228
Abstract
Three psychosocial variables were rated independently by two clinicians for 140 adolescent referrals to a psychiatric unit. Overall, intraclass correlations for DSM-III Axis IV, Axis V and a psychosocial adversity index (PSAI) were respectively 0.44, 0.58 and 0.68. The main source of unreliability is probably the operational definitions, rather than their application by clinicians; indices similar to the PSAI may be preferable.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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