Test-retest reliability of the Chinese version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Version 4 (DISC-IV).
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.
Ho
Ting-pong
TP
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, China. hrmchtp@hkucc.hku.hk
Leung
Patrick Wing-leung
PW
Lee
Chi-chiu
CC
Tang
Chun-pan
CP
Hung
Se-fong
SF
Kwong
Shi-leung
SL
Lucas
Christopher P
CP
Lieh-Mak
Felice
F
Shaffer
David
D
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