Diagnostic Interview Schedule.
DIS
Fully structured, lay-administrable diagnostic assessment of DSM Axis I disorders (mood, anxiety, substance use, psychotic, somatoform, eating disorders, antisocial personality)
- Provisionally grouped under
- Length and format
- Several hundred stem and probe questions across ~20 diagnostic modules; administered count varies with branching (approx). fully structured closed-ended interview questions with a computerised diagnostic algorithm (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs (ES, ZH, KO, JA, FR, DE, PT among them; approx)
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Robins, L.N., Helzer, J.E., Croughan, J., & Ratcliff, K.S. (1981). National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule: its history, characteristics, and validity. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38(4), 381-389.
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