To identify psychiatric conditions exclusionary for CFS, specifically trained and licensed psychiatric interviewers administered the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for current Axis I disorders.
40562_2017_88_MOESM1_ESM.sav Additional file 1. Interview schedule for focus group discussion.
Youth self-reported mental health status on the Voice Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (V-DISC).
Limitations of the study include the lack of a structured interview schedule for diagnosis and the cross sectional design.
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The DICA-PPYC is a reliable and valid semi-structured interview schedule for preschool and young children, and can serve to advance the knowledge and mental health care of this population.
ADHD was assessed via the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children version IV and the ADHD rating scale, and ADHD-related behavioral problems were assessed via the Child Behavior Checklist.
Changes on the primary outcome measure, clinician severity ratings on the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children, and secondary measures, indicated that OCD symptoms remained stable from the evaluation to baseline and improved significantly from baseline to follow-up.
Independent evaluators, blind to treatment condition, administered the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children (ADIS) and the Clinical Global Impression of Improvement (CGI-I) at baseline, post-treatment and 3-month follow-up; clinical self-report questionnaires were also administered.
The information was obtained from the children's and adolescents' parents through a semi-structured interview (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Aged Children Epidemiologic Version [K-SADS-PL]) applied individually.
DICA = Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children and Adolescents [ 38].
