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4. Reaction to Diagnosis Interview (RDI) [ 46].
Intraexaminer reliability calculations were performed on 20 individuals who participated in the Axis I assessment and the Axis II diagnosis interview.
Patients and controls were interviewed by a trained psychologist using the section of mood disorders of the French version of the Diagnosis Interview for Genetic Studies [ 13] providing DSM-IV diagnosis [ 14].
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For an unerring diagnosis, interviews by physicians are preferred.
Although we utilized both pre- and post-cancer diagnosis interviews to establish statin exposure, we do not feel this introduced any bias of recall.
A researcher blinded to the patients' study status and diagnosis, interviewed all participants by telephone, at a pre-arranged time suitable to the patient, six months after randomisation.
Thus, both patients and the interviewer were blind to the final diagnosis at the time of the pre-diagnosis interview.
Each case is assigned to a Disease Intervention Specialist (DIS), an officer of the NC-DHHS's Partner Counseling and Referral Service who arranges for confidential, voluntary post-diagnosis interviews with each individual and collects standardized demographic and behavioral information.
Post-diagnosis interviewing was utilized for purely practical reasons: given the number of procedures performed in our unit and the limited time available to him, the part-time student interviewer had insufficient time to interview all patients pre-colonoscopy.
The average time between diagnosis and interview was 22 days (79.4% were interviewed within 1 month of diagnosis).
We interviewed participants about dietary practices one year before their cancer diagnosis or interview for controls to avoid recent assessment of dietary changes due to pancreatic cancer.
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