Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies
The Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) is a structured interview for psychiatric disorders designed by researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health, first published in 1991. Although most of the diagnoses were based on DSM-III-R criteria, the instrument was also able to generate diagnoses for certain disorders in other systems including DSM-IV, Research Diagnostic Criteria, ICD-10 and Feighner Criteria. This was possible because of the instrument records symptoms in sufficient detail to allow different criteria to be applied. [1] The DIGS interview has gone through a number of revisions since being published. The latest version is DIGS 4.0/BP which was published in 2005. All DIGS versions are available to download from the NIMH Center for Collaborative Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders
See also
- Diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry
References
- ↑ Nurnberger JI, Blehar MC, Kaufmann CA et al (1994).Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) Archives of General Psychiatry, vol. 51, pp. 849-59 PMID 7944874
External links
- DIGS at NIMH Center for Collaborative Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders Manual for DIGS versions 1.0 to 4.0/BP may be downloaded from this website
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