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Reliability of a Schedule for Rating Personality Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. Tyrer ,
M. S. Alexander ,
D. Cicchetti ,
M. S. Cohen  and
Marina Remington
P. Tyrer
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PE
M. S. Alexander
Affiliation:
Professorial Unit, Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hants
D. Cicchetti
Affiliation:
VA Hospital, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, U.S.A.
M. S. Cohen
Affiliation:
Knowle Hospital, Fareham, Hants
Marina Remington
Affiliation:
University of Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton SO9 4XY
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Summary

The inter-situational, inter-rater and temporal reliability of a schedule for rating personality disorders is described. In an initial study with a simplified form of the schedule in patients from different wards of a psychiatric hospital inter-situational reliability between raters was higher for patients with personality disorders than with no personality disorder. Using the full schedule, inter-rater reliability, using audiotaped and separate interviews, and temporal reliability at interviews conducted a mean of 12.5 months apart all reached a satisfactory level, suggesting that the schedule may be a useful instrument for measuring deviant personality traits. The interview may be used with a subject or an informant but agreement between ratings made with informants and psychiatric patients during illness was low, and the schedule is not recommended for use with patients alone during acute episodes of illness.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 135 , Issue 2 , August 1979 , pp. 168 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1979 

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