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The ICD-10 Symptom Checklist is a semistructured diagnostic instrument intended for clinicians' assessment of F0–F6 categories in the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. The instrument was preliminarily tested at the St. Louis site during its participation in the field trials of the ICD-10 Diagnostic Criteria for Research. The Checklist was found to be a reliable diagnostic tool (overall kappa 0.72) within the constraints of the interviewer/observer reliability study design. More rigorous tests of the psychometric properties of the instrument are necessary.
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Janca, A., Üstün, T.B., Early, T.S. et al. The ICD-10 Symptom Checklist: a companion to the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 28, 239–242 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00788743
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