A Self-Report Scale to Help Make Psychiatric Diagnoses

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Abstract
THE PSYCHIATRIC Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ) is a self-report scale designed to screen for the most common DSM-IV Axis I disorders encountered in outpatient mental health settings. Five research and clinical factors occurring during the past 2 decades contributed to the development of the PDSQ. First, the publication of specific inclusion criteria to make psychiatric diagnoses, complemented by the development of standardized interviews to reliably assess the criteria, set the stage for the construction of self-administered questionnaires, such as the PDSQ, which screen for or make provisional psychiatric diagnoses. While research diagnostic interviews, such as the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia,1 Diagnostic Interview Schedule,2 and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID),3 are not infallible, they have been accepted as diagnostic standards to which the diagnostic performance of other tests (be they biological or self-report) are compared.

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