Reliability of DSM-III Diagnoses for Major Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 44 (9), 817-20
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800210065010
Abstract
• This study examined the interrater reliability of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) diagnoses derived from the Structured Clinical interview for DSM-III (SCID). Using videotaped interviews, paired raters made independent diagnoses of 75 psychiatric outpatients. The percent agreement of the raters was 82% for MDD and 86% for GAD; the respective k values were.72 and.79. The results indicated that the SCID can be employed reliably to differentiate MDD from GAD. The SCID is recommended for further research with these disorders.Keywords
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