Renard Diagnostic Interview

The Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule-5 (AUDADIS-5): Reliability of substance use and psychiatric disorder modules in a general population sample

“…Despite the large sample size of this test-retest study relative to prior studies of other psychiatric assessment instruments (Easton et al, 1997; Helzer et al 1981; Semler et al, 1987; Williams et al, 1992; Wittchen et al, 1994, 1995, 1996), the prevalence of some diagnoses was too low (<3.0%) to yield stable estimates according to our predetermined power calculations. Therefore, kappa statistics for rare diagnoses with prevalences at test and/or retest of less than 0.03 (or 3%) were not reported here, including those for tranquilizer/sedative, inhalant/solvent, hallucinogen, club drug and heroin use disorders.…”

“…However, only the prevalences of alcohol and nicotine use disorder, major depressive episode and antisocial, borderline and schizotypal PDs were significantly greater at test than retest interviews. An order effect has been observed in many other psychiatric test-retest reliability studies (Bromet et al, 1986; Helzer et al, 1981), including those conducted on the AUDADIS-IV (Grant 1995; Ruan 2008). That significant order effects were only found for alcohol and nicotine use disorders, major depressive episode and the three PDs and not for other substance use and other psychiatric disorders examined in this study may reflect the unique nature of these AUDADIS-5 modules.…”

Early home environment and retrospective recall: A test for concordance between siblings with and without psychiatric disorders.

“…The selected patients were then given a standardized diagnostic interview, the Renard Diagnostic Inter view. 4 Respondents were included in the study only if they met diagnostic criteria fo r alcoholism or depression ac cording to this diagnostic instrument and were free of the other diagnosis. The diagnosis was made on a lifetime basis, so that a past history of alcoholism in a currently depressed patient would have been grounds fo r elimination from the study.…”

The Evolution of the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders

“…Helzer and colleagues [ 18 ] pointed out that valid diagnostic criteria are of little use if clinicians cannot consistently agree about a diagnosis attained through application of the criteria, as determined through inter-rater reliability. The development and measurement of reliability using validated diagnostic criteria, however, would have to await the advent of structured interview methods, which were developed over the next few years and used to document acceptable reliability of established diagnostic criteria [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”