Psychologist and physician diagnoses of hospitalized patients with similar MMPI symptomatology.
MMPI profiles, including L, K, and F validity scale data, were examined for 40 hospitalized psychiatric patients, for whom diagnoses from both psychologists and physicians were available. Comparison of diagnostic patterns of the same patients, especially for diagnoses of Personality Disorders and Schizophrenics, showed relatively little agreement between disciplines. Discriminant function analyses showed also that each discipline weighted MMPI scales differently in determining diagnosis, even though the scale profiles for each patient in the sample were essentially identical. The MMPI seemingly played a nonsignificant role in determining a set of inconsistently applied diagnoses.
D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D002170:Canada; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005194:Family Practice; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011586:Psychology, Clinical; D011594:Psychometrics; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis