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The ICD-10 symptom checklist: a companion to the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders
A Janca1, T B Ustün, T S Early
1Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
The ICD-10 Symptom Checklist is a semi-structured diagnostic instrument intended for clinicians' assessment of F0-F6 categories in the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. The instrument was preliminarily tested at the St. Louis site during its participation in the field trials of the ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research. The Checklist was found to be a reliable diagnostic tool (overall kappa 0.72) within the constraints of the interviewer/observer reliability study design. More rigorous tests of the psychometric properties of the instrument are necessary.