title: National field trial of the Chinese classification and diagnostic criteria of mental disorders: comprehensibility, acceptability and applicability.
abstract: The Chinese Neurology and Psychiatry Association conducted a national field trial of its Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders (CCMD-2) involving 26 provinces and municipalities, 80 psychiatric institutes, and 224 professionals. The results were as follows: (1) 95.2% of researchers considered the comprehensibility of the CCMD-2 diagnostic criteria good. Within the ten major categories, comprehensibility ranged from 85.7% to 100%. (2) Of those surveyed concerning the acceptability of the CCMD-2 diagnostic criteria, 85.9% considered them acceptable. In individual classifications, the rate ranged from 74.1% to 95.2%. (3) 1498 cases were tested. The overall applicability rate which indicated the consistency between the CCMD-2 result and the actual clinical diagnoses was found to be 87.6%, (averaging Kappa = 0.82, P < 0.01), better than those obtained from non-Chinese systems of diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Biometry, Shanghai Mental Health Center.
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012015:Reference Standards; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis