Main Outcome Measure DSM - IV symptoms of childhood - onset conduct disorder rated by trained interviewers using
a standard diagnostic interview.
Not exact matches
(Howard Clinebell, Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling, pp. 189 - 205, 222 - 43; William Glasser, Reality Therapy (New York: Harper, 1965) Perry London, The Modes and Morale of Psychotherapy [New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964]-RRB- Any program of individual and small - group counseling with the poor should attempt to minimize red tape, needless professionalization, and other types of structural frustrations often accompanying more
standard services — frustrations such as complex and frightening
diagnostic interviews, excessive use of referrals, and delays in the availability of the sought - for service.
The study used an age - and IQ - matched sample of school - aged youth diagnosed with ASD to assess sex differences according to the
standard clinical tests including the Autism
Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism
Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI - R), as well as parent reported autistic traits and adaptive skills.
Its threshold for autism compares favorably with the
diagnostic gold standard, the Autism Diagnostic Interview, the research
diagnostic gold
standard, the Autism
Diagnostic Interview, the research
Diagnostic Interview, the researchers noted.
Participants were recruited from two hospital sites in Melbourne (Australia), and were administered the
standard QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury) questionnaire plus two different measures assessing depression (the recent World Health Organization Composite International
Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the much older Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-RRB-, a measure of demoralization (Demoralization Scale (DS)-RRB- and psychological distress (K10).
Blinded comparison of diagnoses made using the Q - EDD with clinical
interviews following the format of the Structured Clinical
Interview for Axis I DSM - IV Disorders (SCID − the
diagnostic standard)
Studies had to be published after or in the year 2000, coincident with the revision of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases, Fourth Edition8 and widespread implementation of gold -
standard assessment tools including the Autism
Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) 9 and the Autism
Diagnostic Interview - Revised10 over the same time frame.
This is true in children for a variety of interviews3 and in adults for the current recommended
standard — the Composite International
Diagnostic Interview.4 The best of these studies usually compare assessment data generated by lay interviewers versus clinicians.
The test characteristics of a two - question case - fidning instrument that asks about depressed mood and anhedonia were compared with six common case - finding instruments, using the Quick
Diagnostic Interview Schedule as a criterion
standard for the diagnosis of major depression.
Key Question # 1 (accuracy of screening tools): Studies on the accuracy of screening tools will be included if they compared a screening instrument with a valid criterion
standard, defined as a DSM diagnosis of MDD or an ICD diagnosis of depressive episode based on a validated
diagnostic interview procedure, and if they reported data allowing determination of sensitivity and specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value.
After admission to the institution,
diagnostic interviews and self - report questionnaires were completed by the admitted adolescents as part of the
standard diagnostic procedures in the institution.
Child and parent
interviews were conducted simultaneously in separate rooms, shortly after intake and before completion of the
standard diagnostic work - up (routine care).