[Validity of the Spanish version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Third revision (DIS-III-R)].

After a brief description of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, versión III, spanish, we studied the agreement between diagnoses by a clinical standard and diagnoses by the DIS. As clinical standard we used the lifetime diagnoses given by expert psychiatrists to 135 patients who had been longitudinally assessed, with follow up periods amounting to 14 years. Sensitivities, for the fourteen diagnostic categories, varied between 64 per 100 and 100 per 100. Specificity was above 93 per 100 for all diagnoses, and K values ranged from .50 to 1.00, surpassing .60 for eleven of the fourteen categories.