A Persian translation of the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: psychometric properties.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to assess the reliability and validity of a Persian translation of the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) through a multicenter study in a clinical population in Iran.


METHODS
The sample consisted of 299 subjects admitted to outpatient or inpatient services of 3 psychiatric centers in Tehran, Iran. The SCID was administered by trained interviewers. To study the test-retest reliability, a second independent SCID interview was administered to 104 of the entire sample within 3 to 7 days of the first interviews. For the assessment of validity, the SCID diagnoses were compared with the consensus clinical diagnoses made by 2 psychiatrists for all 299 patients.


RESULTS
Diagnostic agreements between test and retest SCID administration were fair to good for most diagnostic categories. Overall weighted kappa was 0.52 for current diagnoses and 0.55 for lifetime diagnoses. Specificity values for most psychiatric disorders were high (>0.85); the sensitivity values were somewhat lower.


CONCLUSIONS
The Persian translation of the SCID yields diagnoses with acceptable to good reliability and validity in a clinical population in Iran. This supports the cross-cultural use of the instrument.
Sharifi
Vandad
V
Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 13337, Iran. vsharifi@tums.ac.ir
Assadi
Seyed Mohammad
SM
Mohammadi
Mohammad Reza
MR
Amini
Homayoun
H
Kaviani
Hossein
H
Semnani
Yousef
Y
Shabani
Amir
A
Shahrivar
Zahra
Z
Davari-Ashtiani
Rozita
R
Shooshtari
Mitra Hakim
MH
Seddigh
Arshia
A
Jalali
Mohsen
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007492:Iran; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult