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The World Health Organization somatoform disorders schedule. A preliminary report on design and reliability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A Janca ,
JD Burke Jr ,
M Isaac ,
KC Burke ,
JA Costa ,
E Silva ,
SW Acuda ,
AC Altamura ,
CR Chandrashekar  and
CT Miranda
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A Janca
Affiliation:
Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization1211Geneva 27, Switzerland
JD Burke Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Scott & White Clinic, Texas A and M University, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA
M Isaac
Affiliation:
Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization1211Geneva 27, Switzerland Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
KC Burke
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Scott & White Clinic, Texas A and M University, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA
JA Costa
Affiliation:
Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization1211Geneva 27, Switzerland
E Silva
Affiliation:
Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization1211Geneva 27, Switzerland
SW Acuda
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
AC Altamura
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
CR Chandrashekar
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
CT Miranda
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paula, Brazil
G Tacchini
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Clinic, Milan University, Milan, Italy
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Summary

The World Health Organization (WHO) Somatoform Disorders Schedule (SDS) is a highly standardized instrument for the assessment of somatoform disorders according to the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). The SDS was produced in the framework of the WHO International Study of Somatoform Disorders and tested for its reliability in Brazil, India, Italy, the USA and Zimbabwe. A sample of 180 patients from general psychiatry, primary care and general medical settings were interviewed with the SDS within a three-day interval by nonclinician and clinician interviewers. The agreement between the two interviews was tested using the intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) and kappa statistic. The test-retest reliability of the SDS was found to be very good (the ICC for all the centres was 0.76; overall kappa value for SDS questions was 0.58; one-third of SDS questions had a kappa value of 0.60 or higher). The field test results of the SDS indicated that the instrument may be administered in larger studies by non-clinician interviewers without compromising the ability to document the prevalence of somatoform disorders in different cultures.

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somatizationsomatoform disordersassessmentinstrument
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European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue 8 , 1995 , pp. 373 - 378
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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