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