Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1992 Feb;85(2):105-13. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb01452.x.
The Canberra Interview for the Elderly (CIE) has been developed as a field instrument for identifying cases of dementia and depression, doing so strictly according to the diagnostic criteria in both the draft ICD-10 and DSM-III-R. It has been designed to be administered by lay interviewers. Information is gathered from the subject and an informant, and is then processed by computer algorithm to generate diagnoses. In a sample of 76 elderly patients attending a hospital clinic, test-retest reliability was found to be high at the level of individual items. For the diagnoses made on two occasions, agreement was comparable with other standardized psychiatric interviews designed for lay administration in the community. Validity, other than content validity, remains to be assessed. The CIE and its diagnostic algorithms are an efficient tool for clinical and epidemiological research on dementia and depression among elderly people, where close adherence to international criteria is required.
堪培拉老年人访谈（CIE）已被开发为一种用于识别痴呆症和抑郁症病例的现场工具，它严格按照国际疾病分类第10版草案（ICD - 10）和《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版修订本（DSM - III - R）中的诊断标准进行操作。它被设计为由非专业访谈者进行实施。信息从受试者和一名提供信息者处收集，然后通过计算机算法进行处理以生成诊断结果。在一家医院门诊就诊的76名老年患者样本中，发现各个项目层面的重测信度很高。对于两次做出的诊断，其一致性与其他为社区非专业实施设计的标准化精神病学访谈相当。除内容效度外，效度仍有待评估。CIE及其诊断算法是老年人痴呆症和抑郁症临床及流行病学研究的有效工具，此类研究需要严格遵循国际标准。
