Concordance between telephone survey classification and face-to-face structured clinical interview in the diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder in Hong Kong

Dyspepsia is strongly associated with major depression and generalised anxiety disorder ‐ a community study

“…23 Clinical re-appraisal for diagnoses of MDE and GAD using the gold standard of psychiatric diagnosis in research, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis-I Disorders (SCID-I) yielded good agreement. 24,25 The same series of telephone survey had assessed prevalence of Rome III Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Hong Kong to be 5.4%, comparable while conservative, with overseas estimates. 26 We also asked 'how much did you spend over the past 5 years on investigations for your gastrointestinal problems?'…”

A community study of generalized anxiety disorder with vs. without health anxiety in Hong Kong

“…Thus, a diagnosis of GAD was made if a respondent reported [1] excessive anxiety and worry, occurring more days than not for 3 months about a number of events or activities; [2] difficulty in controlling the worry; [3] three or more of the six DSM-IV symptoms of GAD in the same 3-month period; and [4] significant distress (extremely or very distressed) or impairment (extremely or very impaired) brought about by anxiety symptoms. Such a telephone-based assessment of GAD had been used in previous community studies (Lee, Ma, Tsang, & Kwok, 2009) and was found to be conservatively concordant with the clinical diagnosis of GAD made by psychiatrists using the SCID (First et al, 2002;Lee, Tsang, Lau, et al, 2008).…”

Prevalence and correlates of social fears in Hong Kong

“…In the absence of validation by clinical reappraisal interviews, the telephone-based diagnosis of SAD is best taken to be an approximation of a clinical diagnosis. A recent study of the concordance between a similar telephone-based interview method and face-to-face clinicians' assessment of generalized anxiety disorder in Hong Kong (Lee et al, 2008) indicated that phone interview was conservative relative to face-to-face clinical diagnoses. Nonetheless, this conservatism, if present in our study, is not likely to affect the main findings on social fears.…”