THE STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM-III-R PERSONALITY-DISORDERS(SCID-II) .2. MULTISITE TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY STUDY

A test-retest reliability study of the Structured Clinical Interview f or DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II) was conducted on 284 subj ects in four psychiatric patient sites and two nonpsychiatric patient sites. For the patient sites, kappas ranged from .24 for obsessive-com pulsive personality disorder to .74 for histrionic personality disorde r, with an overall weighted kappa of .53. For the nonpatients, however , agreement was considerably lower, with an overall weighted kappa of .38. Mean duration of administration time was 36 minutes. Results of t his study and other studies using the SCID-II suggest that the reliabi lity and validity of the SCID-II are comparable with other instruments that diagnose Axis II disorders of the Diagnostic and Statistical Man ual of Mental Disorders, but this new instrument has the advantage of a shorter time of administration.