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

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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.

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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH073801) awarded to the third author and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (08.1238) awarded to the first author with the third author serving as mentor.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Matthew E. Young

  2. Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Ziv E. Bell

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, 1670 Upham Drive Suite 460G, Columbus, OH, 43210-1250, USA

    Mary A. Fristad

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Authors Matthew E. Young and Ziv E. Bell declare that they have no conflict of interest. Mary A. 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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Young, M.E., Bell, Z.E. & Fristad, M.A. Validation of a Brief Structured Interview: The Children’s Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes (ChIPS). J Clin Psychol Med Settings 23, 327–340 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-016-9474-7

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