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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS IN PSYCHIATRY 211<br />
population), <strong>and</strong> appropriateness to the study resources the financial implications<br />
varying considerably between self-administered interviews, telephone<br />
interviews, <strong>and</strong> administration by clinicians).<br />
Universal criteria for choosing the most appropriate instrument are related<br />
to questions of efficiency e.g. degree of difficulty or ease to ask <strong>and</strong> to<br />
underst<strong>and</strong> the interview questions), format e.g. interviewer instructions,<br />
coding procedures), transparency of computer programs allowing the user<br />
to underst<strong>and</strong> the diagnostic algorithms followed in a given program),<br />
acceptability to both respondents <strong>and</strong> interviewers), support available<br />
e.g. instruction manuals, data entry programs, videotapes) <strong>and</strong> reliability<br />
<strong>and</strong> validity of the instrument.<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT<br />
The authors wish to thank Isabelle Heuertz <strong>and</strong> Myriam Kolber for their help with<br />
the manuscript.<br />
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