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Interviews assessing causal links between psychiatric symptoms show promising test-retest reliability in adolescents. This method may offer a more stable way to understand personalized psychopathology networks.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Network Science
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • The network approach to psychopathology views mental health issues as interconnected symptoms rather than distinct diseases.
  • Current methods using questionnaires for personalized symptom networks have demonstrated low test-retest reliability.
  • Exploring alternative assessment methods is crucial for advancing the network approach in clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and test-retest reliability of using interviews to assess causal links between psychiatric symptoms.
  • To compare interview-based symptom network assessment with existing questionnaire-based methods.
  • To identify central symptoms within adolescent psychopathology networks.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 adolescents to assess perceptions of causal relationships between psychiatric symptoms.
  • Administered interviews twice within a one-week interval to evaluate test-retest reliability.
  • Analyzed reliability for node centrality and causal links, and assessed participant-rated feasibility and acceptability.

Main Results:

  • Achieved moderate to good test-retest reliability for node centrality (r=0.703) and causal links (r=0.533).
  • A majority of adolescents found the interview format easy to understand and acceptable.
  • Negative emotions were identified as the most central and frequent symptom node at the group level.

Conclusions:

  • Interview-based assessment of symptom networks is a feasible and acceptable method for adolescents.
  • This approach demonstrates improved test-retest reliability compared to previous questionnaire-based methods.
  • Further research is needed to evaluate the clinical utility and face validity of interview-derived networks for treatment guidance.