title: The ICD-10 symptom checklist: a companion to the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders.
abstract: The ICD-10 Symptom Checklist is a semi-structured diagnostic instrument intended for clinicians' assessment of F0-F6 categories in the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. The instrument was preliminarily tested at the St. Louis site during its participation in the field trials of the ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research. The Checklist was found to be a reliable diagnostic tool (overall kappa 0.72) within the constraints of the interviewer/observer reliability study design. More rigorous tests of the psychometric properties of the instrument are necessary.
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Janca
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Ustün
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Early
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sartorius
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D014481:United States; D014944:World Health Organization