title: Diagnostic validity Polish language version of the questionnaire MINI-KID (Mini International Neuropsychiatry Interview for Children and Adolescent).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Since over forty years structuralized interviews for clinical and epidemiological research in child and adolescent psychiatry are being developed that should increase validity and reliability of diagnoses according to classification systems (DSM and ICD). The aim of the study is to assess the validity of the Polish version of MINI-KID (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents) in comparison to clinical diagnosis made by a specialist in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
  
  
  METHODS
  There were 140 patients included in the study (93 boys, 66.4%, mean age 11.8±3.0 and 47 girls 33.5%, mean age 14.0±2.9). All the patients were diagnosed by the specialist in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry according to ICD-10 criteria and by the independent interviewer with the Polish version of MINI-KID (version 2.0, 2001).
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was higher agreement between clinical diagnoses and diagnoses based on MINI-KID interview with respect to eating disorders and externalizing disorders (κ 0.43-0.56) and lower in internalizing disorders (κ 0.13-0.45). In the clinical interview, there was smaller number of diagnostic categories (maximum 3 diagnoses per one patient) in comparison to MINI-KID (maximum 10 diagnoses per one patient), and the smaller percentage of patients with one diagnosis (65,7%) in comparison to MINI-KID interview (72%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our study has shown satisfactory validity parameters of MINI-KID questionnaire, promoting its use for clinical and epidemiological settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Mini International Neuropsychiatry Interview for Children and Adolescent (MINI-KID) is the first structuralized diagnostic interview for assessing mental status in children and adolescents, which has been translated into Polish language. Our validation study demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties of the questionnaire, enabling its use in clinical practice and in research projects.
authors.forename: Sylwia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adamowska
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Wroclaw, Poland. Electronic address: sylwia.adamowska@umed.wroc.pl.
authors.forename: Adamowska
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sylwia
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adamowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Adamowski
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tomasz
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frydecka
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Frydecka
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dorota
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Wroclaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Andrzej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kiejna
authors.forename: Kiejna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andrzej
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011044:Poland; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations