Reliability of the AMDP-system. A preliminary report on a multicentre exercise on the reliability of psychopathological assessment.
The AMDP-System is a documentation system for psychiatric data widely in use in the German-speaking countries. A summary of results of a multicentered study of interrater agreement of the Psychopathology Scale is presented. A new index of rater agreement was tested and the notion is discussed that the judgement of the presence and the absence of a symptom are two different processes with different reliability.
D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis