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Table 1 Studies comparing clinical diagnoses with diagnoses generated with diagnostic interviews

From: Implementing the semi-structured interview Kiddie-SADS-PL into an in-patient adolescent clinical setting: impact on frequency of diagnoses

STUDY

INSTRUMENT

Sample Size

Dx

Median kappa

Range

Inpatients

Carlson et al.(1987) [28]

K-SADS-P

30

6

.50

.16 to .69

 

DICA (Child version)

  

.38

.15 to .75

 

DICA-P (Parent version)

  

.40

.05 to .66

Welner et al.(1987) [29]

DICA-C (Child version)

27

5*

.26

-.18 to .52

Apter et al.(1989) [30]

K-SADS-P (Hebrew)

70

6*

.64

NA

Weinstein et al.(1989) [31]

DISC-1

163

6*

.09

.03 to .17

Aronen et al.(1993) [32]

"

"

6*

.09

-.07 to .22

Vitiello et al.(1990) [33]

DICA-C

46

3*

.28

-.03 to .62

 

DICA-P

  

.28

.10 to .48

Shanee et al.(1997) [34]

K-SADS-PL (Hebrew)

57

19

.80

.48 to 1.00

Fristad et al.(1998) [35]

CHIPS

47

15

.51

.31 to .78

Pellegrino et al.(1999) [36]

DISC-R 2.1

50

5

.09

.03 to .61

  1. Note: Dx = Number of disorders on which the standard kappas were calculated
  2. *Broad diagnostic clusters
  3. • K-SADS-P = Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present Episode Version (K-SADS-P) [9]. K-SADS-PL = Present and Lifetime version [37].
  4. • DICA = Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children and Adolescents [38]. DICA-C = child version. DICA-P = Parent version [39, 40]. DICA-R = Revised version [4143].
  5. • CHIPS = Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes [44].
  6. • DISC-1 = Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children [45]. DISC-R 2.1 = second revision [46]. DISC 2.3 = version 2.3 [47]. DISC-IV = version IV [48].