title: Validation of a Brief Structured Interview: The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS).
abstract: Evidence-based assessment is important in the treatment of childhood psychopathology. While researchers and clinicians frequently use structured diagnostic interviews to ensure reliability, the most commonly used instrument, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children (K-SADS) is too long for most clinical applications. The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS/P-ChIPS) is a highly-structured brief diagnostic interview. The present study compared K-SADS and ChIPS/P-ChIPS diagnoses in an outpatient clinical sample of 50 parent-child pairs aged 7-14. Agreement between most diagnoses was moderate to high between the instruments and with consensus clinical diagnoses. ChIPS was significantly briefer to administer than the K-SADS. Interviewer experience level and participant demographics did not appear to affect agreement. Results provide further evidence for the validity of the ChIPS and support its use in clinical and research settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Ziv E
authors.initials: ZE
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, 1670 Upham Drive Suite 460G, Columbus, OH, 43210-1250, USA. mary.fristad@osumc.edu.
authors.forename: Mary A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fristad
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013577:Syndrome
keywords: Assessment; Psychometrics; Structured diagnostic interview; Validity