title: [Training of interviewers in the utilization of standardized questionnaires in psychiatry: studies realized with the Present State Examination (PSE)].
abstract: Interview questionnaires offer more validity than self-administered format in exploring psychopathological or psychosocial phenomena of interest in psychiatric research. If used, special care needs to be paid to interviewers' training and ensuring that they maintain their reliability. No widespread training standards exist and each schedule may carry its own procedure. Our aims are to indicate how we trained interviewers with the French version of the Present State Examination (Wing, Cooper and Sartorius, 1974) and how we checked and kept acceptable interraters reliability during one study. We will provide data on the interraters reliability during the training and the study, as well as the test-retest reliability. These results will be used to support some guidelines when using this sort of psychiatric research questionnaires in order to ensure comparability both within the study and between studies.
authors.affiliation: Centre de recherche, Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montréal.
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Lesage
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cyr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toupin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cormier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valiquette
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D015588:Observer Variation; D011566:Psychiatric Aides / Q000193:education*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: La formation d'interviewers à l'utilisation de questionnaires standardisés en psychiatrie: travaux réalisés avec l'Examen Psychiatrique Standardisé (EPS).