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José Alexandre S Crippa1, Flávia de Lima Osório, Cristina Marta Del-Ben
1Department of Neuropsychiatry and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. jcrippa@fmrp.usp.br
Purpose:
This article evaluates the comparability of the telephone and in-person Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) interviews in assessing patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) as an independent anxiety diagnosis.
Design And Methods:
One hundred subjects were randomly selected and interviewed with the SCID, once by telephone and once in person (1-3 months later).
Findings:
The prevalence of SAD assessed with the telephone interviews was 56%, whereas the in-person prevalence was 52%, with no statistically significant difference. The test-retest kappa for the 200 interviews was .84, indication of excellent agreement.
Practice Implications:
These findings, along with the existing evidence of their validity, should encourage the use of SCID by telephone for SAD diagnostic interviews.
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