title: Experiences with a checklist for DSM-III-R in the Russian Federation and Belarus. A study about the interrater reliability and the concurrent validity of the Munich Diagnostic Checklist for DSM-III-R.
abstract: The interrater reliability of the Munich Diagnostic Checklist (MDCL) was assessed in a small clinical sample and two population samples in the Russian Federation and Belarus. A team of Russian and Belarussian psychiatrists made DSM-III-R diagnoses, using the MDCL as the basis for a standardized interview. The interrater reliability was found to be satisfactory (kappa = 0.86 for case vs non-case distinction). In the population samples, the interviewing psychiatrist, in addition to making a DSM-III-R diagnosis, classified each respondent on a checklist of 11 clinical syndromes familiar to Russian psychiatry and made a severity rating. The overall concurrent validity indices based on the comparison of these diagnostic ratings were fairly high (kappa 0.48-0.82), suggesting considerable agreement between the DSM-III-R and traditional Russian diagnostic concepts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Utrecht, Netherlands.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Havenaar
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Rumyantzeva
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Filipenko
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: van den Brink
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Poelijoe
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van den Bout
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Romasenko
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015588:Observer Variation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D002094:Republic of Belarus; D012426:Russia