title: National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Its history, characteristics, and validity.
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).
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009315:National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); D014481:United States; D014482:United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration