World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; Mental Health, Mental, Neurological and Psychosocial Disorders, No. 94.1: World Health Organization International Study of Somatoform Disorders Study Protocol and Instruments

By L. Bennett

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1994 ; Mental Health, Mental, Neurological and Psychosocial Disorders, No. 94.1: World Health Organization International Study of Somatoform Disorders Study Protocol and Instruments
Author:	L. Bennett
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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INTRODUCTION The development of diagnostic criteria for mental disorders has been one of the major goals of the WHO Mental Health Programme. Through the past decade the Division of Mental Health, WHO, has supported the development of Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines' and of Diagnostic Criteria for Research of The ICD-I0 Classification of Mental and ~ehuviouralDisorders'~T)h. ese parts of the ICD-10 system have been extensively fieldtested to assess their clinical and cultural suitability, acceptability and reliability. A related goal of WHO has been the development of instruments for the reliable and valid assessment of mental disorders in cross-cultural studies. This goal has been expressed in the ongoing W H O M Joint Project on Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders, Alcohol- and Drug-Related Problems. Closely tied to the ICD-10 and related classification systems have been several new diagnostic instruments. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CID1)'3' is a member of the family of instruments developed within the WHO/NIH Joint Project, and its primary application is in epidemiological research in psychiatry(4'. Over the past several years CIDI was field- tested in more than 20 cenkes worldwide, and it was found to be acceptable and appropriate for use across cultures and to have excellent inter-rater reliabi~ity'~'. Other WHO ins~uments include the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)'6' and the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE)). Both SCAN and IPDE have also been extensively tested and found to be applicable and reliable diagnostic tools in different cult~r

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