Background
Study & language | Participants | Validation | Reliability-analysis | Results, depressive and anxiety disorders | Concordance; Cohen’s kappa mean & range |
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Sheehan et al. [5] English | Psychiatric patients N = 308 Non-patients, N = 62 Total N = 370 | SCID-P1
| Test-retest and inter-rater analyse | Concordance between MINI-CR and SCID-P1 diagnoses | Twenty-two diagnostic categories analysed |
Major depressive disorder kappa:0.84, observed agreement: 92% | Two diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
Inter-rater (kappa) 1.00, Retest (kappa) 0.87 Lifetime panic disorder, kappa: 0.80, observed agreement: 91% | Kappa mean: 0.67, range: 0.43-0.90 | ||||
Inter-rater (kappa)0.97, Retest (kappa) 0.79 | |||||
Lecrubier et al. [4] French | Psychiatric patients N = 260 Non-patients, N = 50 Total N = 310 | CIDI2
| Test-retest and inter-rater analyses | Concordance between MINI and CIDI2 diagnoses | Seventeen diagnostic categories analysed |
Major depressive disorder (kappa) 0.73, observed agreement: 87% Test-retest (kappa) 0.83 | Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
Lifetime panic disorder (kappa) 0.68, observed agreement: 92% Test-retest (kappa) 0.76. | Kappa mean: 0.66, range: 0.36-0.82 | ||||
Inter rater, all diagnoses (kappa) 0.88-1.00 | |||||
Bobes [13] Spanish | Primary health care patients N = 126 | Expert opinion | Inter-rater analysis | Major depression, sensitivity 0.94, specificity 0.62 | No Cohen’s kappa values available |
Generalised anxiety disorder, sensitivity 0.92, specificity 0.65 | |||||
Pinninti et al. [19] English | Psychiatric outpatients N = 111 | Expert opinion | Diagnostic agreement in 58% of the cases In 33% the disagreement was of substantial nature MINI diagnosed more co-morbid conditions | No Cohen’s kappa values available | |
Rossi et al. [14] Italian | Psychiatric outpatients N = 50 | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Major depressive disorder, current: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.96. Test-retest (kappa) 0.46 | Thirty-one diagnoses analysed Inter-rater kappa mean: 0.85, range: 0–1.00 | |
Major depressive disorder, recurrent: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.84. Test-retest (kappa) 0.36 | Test-retest kappa mean: 0.41, range: 0–1.00 | ||||
Panic disorder lifetime: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.88. Test-retest (kappa) 0.49 | Information on diagnoses occurring in less than 5% of participants not available | ||||
Kadri et al. [16] Moroccan | Psychiatric patients N = 175 Non-patients, N = 50 Total N = 225 | Expert opinion | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Concordance between MINI and expert diagnoses Major depressive disorder (kappa) 0.95, observed agreement: 99% | Thirteen diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants |
Social phobia (5% of participants) (kappa) 0.91, obs. agreement: 94% | Kappa mean: 0.91, range: 0.79-0.95 | ||||
Inter-rater and test-retest reliability (kappa) all above 0.80 | |||||
Otsubo et al. [15] Japanese | Psychiatric inpatients AN = 82 BN = 169 |
ASCID-P1 B Expert opinion | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Concordance between MINI and A SCID-P1/B expert opinion |
A Thirteen diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants |
Major depressive disorder, | Kappa mean: 0.71, range: 0.49-0.93 | ||||
A kappa: 0.85, obs. agreement: 93% |
B Eleven diagnostic categories analysed Seven diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
B kappa: 0.36, obs. agreement: 69% | Kappa mean: 0.34, range: 0.03-0.69 | ||||
Panic disorder, A kappa: 092, obs. agreement: 98% | |||||
B kappa: 0.53, obs. agreement: 89% | |||||
MINI test-retest, kappa: 0.80, obs. agreement: 91% | |||||
MINI Inter-rater, kappa: 0.94, obs. agreement: 97% | |||||
Marques & Zuardi [17] Portuguese | Primary health care patients N = 120 | SCID3
| Concordance between MINI and SCID3 diagnoses Depressive disorders, kappa: 0.75, obs. agreement: 92% | Eight diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | |
Anxiety disorders, kappa: 0.81, obs. agreement: 94% | Kappa mean: 0.66, range: 0–0.85 | ||||
Mordal et al. [18] Norwegian | Psychiatric patients, acute ward N = 38 | Test - retest analysis | Concordance of MINI diagnoses in test-retest | Twenty diagnostic categories analysed Six diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | |
Major depressive episode, kappa: 0.82, obs. agreement: 92% | Kappa mean: 0.51, range: 0–1.00 | ||||
Panic disorder, lifetime, kappa: 0.84, obs. agreement: 92% |
Methods
Participants
Number of females | 29 (71%) |
Age in years | mean: 36, SD 14.1, median: 34, range: 18–83 |
Decibel loss in the better ear | mean: 84.9, SD 13.8, median: 90, range: 56–110 |
Marital status | |
Single | 22 (53.7%) |
Married and cohabiting | 15 (36.5%) |
Divorced, separated & widowed | 4 (9.8%) |
Ethnicity | |
European/Caucasian | 37 (90.2%) |
Asian | 4 (9.8%) |
Education | |
High school and equivalent | 30 (73.2%) |
College degree and above | 11 (26.8%) |
Source of income | |
Paid work and study loans | 13 (31.7%) |
Social welfare and pension | 28 (68.3%) |
1GAF F at admission | mean: 55.2, SD 12.4, median: 52, range: 31–76 |
2GAF S at admission | mean: 55.5, SD 11.0, median: 56, range: 21–73 |
Assessments
The MINI
Clinical interview (Expert opinion)
Procedure
Ethics
Statistical analysis
Results
MINI assessment | ||||
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Expert opinion | - - | - + | ||
+ - | + + | |||
Disorders assessed in the present study (sorted as in MINI) | Cohen’s kappa (95% CI) | Observed agreement | ||
Major depressive disorder | 17 | 3 | 0.51 (0.26-0.77) | 76% |
7 | 14 | |||
Dysthymia* | 37 | 3 | 0.38 (0.00-0.91) | 93% |
0 | 1 | |||
Panic disorder | 31 | 7 | 0.39 (0.07-0.72) | 83% |
0 | 3 | |||
Social anxiety disorder | 34 | 3 | 0.69 (0.37-1.00) | 93% |
0 | 4 | |||
Posttraumatic stress disorder | 37 | 2 | 0.36 (0.07-0.93) | 93% |
1 | 1 | |||
Alcohol dependence & abuse | 38 | 1 | 0.79 (0.39-1.00) | 98% |
0 | 2 | |||
Substance abuse* | 37 | 3 | 0.38 (0.00-0.91) | 93% |
0 | 1 | |||
Psychotic disorders* | 40 | 0 | 1.00 (1.00) | 100% |
0 | 1 | |||
Generalised anxiety disorder | 37 | 2 | 0.00 (0.00) | 90% |
2 | 0 | |||
Antisocial personality disorder* | 39 | 1 | 0.66 (0.03-1.00) | 96% |
0 | 1 |
MINI assessment | ||||
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Expert opinion | - - | - + | ||
+ - | + + | |||
Psychiatric disorders | Cohen’s kappa (95% CI) | Observed agreement | ||
Depressive disorders1
| 14 | 5 | 0.46 (0.19-0.73) | 73% |
6 | 16 | |||
Anxiety disorders2
| 26 | 5 | 0.72 (0.4-0.94) | 88% |
0 | 10 |
Second rater | ||||
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Expert opinion | - - | - + | ||
+ - | + + | |||
Psychiatric disorders | Cohen’s kappa (95% CI) | Observed agreement | ||
Depressive disorders1
| 4 | 1 | 0.81 (0.47–1.00) | 91% |
0 | 6 | |||
Anxiety disorders2
| 5 | 1 | 0.44 (0.00-0.97) | 73% |
2 | 3 |
Second rater | ||||
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MINI assessment | - - | - + | ||
+ - | + + | |||
Psychiatric disorders | Cohen’s kappa (95% CI) | Observed agreement | ||
Depressive disorders1
| 5 | 0 | 0.71 (0.21–1.00) | 88% |
1 | 2 | |||
Anxiety disorders2
| 5 | 0 | 1.00 (1.00) | 100% |
0 | 3 |