Comparison of DISC with Clinicians' DSM-III Diagnoses in Psychiatric Inpatients
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 January 1989
Sharon R. Weinstein, Karen Stone, Gil G. Noam, KEVIN GRIMES, Mary Schwab‐Stone
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Discussion focuses on factors that may contribute to the discrepancy between number and type of diagnoses that the DISC yields compared to those made by the clinicians.
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A sample of 163 children and adolescents, consecutively admitted to a large, private psychiatric teaching hospital, was interviewed using the child version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC-C). Patients, ages 12 to 16, were interviewed during the first month of admission. Kappa coefficients were obtained from cross-tabulated frequencies of DISC and clinician diagnoses. Agreement between clinical and DISC diagnoses was generally poor across diagnostic categories. In general, when algorithms of a higher threshold were used, the percentage of patients in a particular diagnostic group was closer to the percentage diagnosed by the clinician. Discussion focuses on factors that may contribute to the discrepancy between number and type of diagnoses that the DISC yields compared to those made by the clinicians.
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