Zheng Y, Yang W, Phillips M R, Dai C, Zheng H
Research Center of Psychological Medicine, Hunan Medical College, Changsha, Peoples Republic of China.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1988 Jan;77(1):32-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb05073.x.
This paper reports on the development and testing of a new Chinese diagnostic instrument--the Adult Diagnostic Interview Schedule-Present (ADIS-P). This instrument uses a selection of items adapted from DIS and SADS. It is administered within approximately 25 min by a trained clinician using a small portable computer that provides an immediate diagnosis. The instrument was tested on 1,331 patients from six large mental hospitals across the country. The concurrent validity was good: compared to the concensus diagnosis of two senior clinicians (who were blinded to the ADIS-P result), the overall diagnostic accuracy was 83% and the weighted Kappa value was 0.60. The 1 month test-retest reliability was satisfactory (weighted Kappa = 0.55). We conclude that ADIS-P is a convenient, reliable and valid diagnostic instrument.
