Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evaluation: DSM and ICD and Diagnosis
- DSM-IV/DSM-IV-TR
- The DSM stands for the
Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of mental disorders
and only focuses on
diagnosis of mental health
disorders.
- The DSM is only in English
and is limited to certain
countries - inaccessible to
the whole world.
- Its diagnoses are based
one symptoms as well as
existing medical issues
and environmental
stressors.
- The DSM is revised
regularly and is
currently on its fifth
edition.
- The mental health disorders
are put on 5 axes, which
include psychiatric diagnoses,
personality problems, general
medical conditions,
environmental stress and
'global functioning'.
- ICD-10
- The ICD stands for the
International Classification of
Disorders. It focuses on all
health conditions, including
mental health.
- The ICD is
multi-lingual and aims
to improve healthcare
and diagnosis all over
the world.
- The ICD is in its 10
edition and is
reviewed regularly.
- Its diagnoses
are based on
symptoms only.
- Section F of the ICD is specific for mental
health disorders and within this section,
each disorder is grouped in a family. For
example, depression is part of the the mood
disorders (represented by the family digit 3).
More digits can be added to this to represent
the specific disorder, the sub-type of the
disorder, and very specific categorisations.
- Reliability
- Reliability refers to
whether diagnosis is
consistent regardless
of clinician.
- One issue with reliability of diagnosis
is the subjectivity of criteria. This is
because one clinician may believe a
behaviour meets a certain criteria
whereas another may not.
- Inter-rater reliability is when
two or more clinicians use
the same diagnostic tool and
come to the same diagnosis
for the same individual.
- Rosenhan found that the DSM-II had high
inter-rater reliability as 7/8 pseudo patients
in the study (with the same symptoms) were
all diagnosed with schizophrenia by
different clinicians using the DSM-II.
- Goldstein found that the DSM-III
also had high inter-rater reliability,
and Brown found the DSM-IV had
high inter-rater reliability.
- Test-retest reliability is
when the same diagnosis is
reached with the same
diagnostic tool but after a
period of time to see if the
diagnosis is consistent.
- Pontinovsky found the
ICD had good test
re-test reliability.
- Sanchez-Villegas found the
DSM-IV-TR also has high
test re-test reliability.
- Validity
- Validity refers to if the
diagnosis is correct,
reflects the actual disorder
and can lead to a suitable
treatment that works.
- Validity can be affected by many factors, such
as comorbidity (when symptoms overlap and
can be applied to multiple disorders) which
leads to a higher chance of misdiagnosis,
implicit bias of the clinician (when a clinician's
prejudices against people may influence their
diagnosis), patient factors like accent which
could lead to a misinterpretation of
information, and revisions of systems which
can improve the validity of diagnostic systems.
- Construct validity refers
to how far the constructs
that are being measured
represents that disorder.
- Brown et al found that the
DSM-IV had low construct
validity.
- However, Stinchfield
found that the DSM-IV had
high construct validity.
- Concurrent validity is when two
tests done at the same time come
up with the same diagnosis, which
would suggest the tests measure
what they seem to measure.
- Hoffman and Lee found that DSM
criteria had high concurrent validity
with other diagnostic tools such as
interviews and questionnaires.