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. 2016 Dec;23(4):327-340.
doi: 10.1007/s10880-016-9474-7.

Validation of a Brief Structured Interview: The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS)

Matthew E Young  1 , Ziv E Bell  2 , Mary A Fristad  3
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Validation of a Brief Structured Interview: The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS)

Matthew E Young et al. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

Evidence-based assessment is important in the treatment of childhood psychopathology. While researchers and clinicians frequently use structured diagnostic interviews to ensure reliability, the most commonly used instrument, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children (K-SADS) is too long for most clinical applications. The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS/P-ChIPS) is a highly-structured brief diagnostic interview. The present study compared K-SADS and ChIPS/P-ChIPS diagnoses in an outpatient clinical sample of 50 parent-child pairs aged 7-14. Agreement between most diagnoses was moderate to high between the instruments and with consensus clinical diagnoses. ChIPS was significantly briefer to administer than the K-SADS. Interviewer experience level and participant demographics did not appear to affect agreement. Results provide further evidence for the validity of the ChIPS and support its use in clinical and research settings.

Keywords: Assessment; Psychometrics; Structured diagnostic interview; Validity.

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of Potential Conflicts of Interest: Dr. Young declares that he has no conflict of interest. Mr. Bell declares that he has no conflict of interest. Dr. Fristad receives royalties from American Psychiatric Press, Inc. for the Children’s Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes and royalties from Guilford Press and Child & Family Psychological Services, Inc. as well as honoraria from Physician’s Post-Graduate Press and the American Occupational Therapy Association for other work.

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