title: Test-retest reliability of the Chinese version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Version 4 (DISC-IV).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite the huge youth population, there is a lack of psychiatric diagnostic instruments with reported psychometric properties in Chinese. This study reports the development of the Chinese version of DISC-IV and examines its test-retest reliability.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-eight parents and 79 youths (mean age 13.1 years) attending child psychiatric clinics were interviewed twice using the Chinese DISC-IV (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-IV) about 22 days apart.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The kappa coefficients were good to excellent for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (both youth (Y) and parent (P) versions), major depressive disorder (MDD) (P), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (P); fair for anxiety disorder (P), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) (P, Y), MDD (Y); but poor for anxiety disorder (Y) and ADHD (Y). Parent informants had better test-retest reliability than youth informants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Chinese DISC-IV had comparable test-retest reliability with the original English version.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, China. hrmchtp@hkucc.hku.hk
authors.forename: Ting-pong
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Patrick Wing-leung
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: Chi-chiu
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Chun-pan
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Se-fong
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Shi-leung
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Kwong
authors.forename: Christopher P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Lucas
authors.forename: Felice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lieh-Mak
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shaffer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results