Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Classification and diagnosis of
schizophrenia
- Reliability
- Inter-rater reliability
- AO1
- the consistency of the
measuring instrument
- CARSON
- the DSM-III had fixed
the problem of
inter-rater validity
once and for all
- AO2
- WHALEY
- inter-rater reliability
correlations in the diagnosis of
Sz, as low as 0.11
- REJECT-there is a lack of
inter-rater reliability,
contradicting CARSON
- COPELAND
- 69% of US psychiatrists
diagnosed Sz with only 2% of
British psychiatrists
diagnosed Sz
- differences in
DSM and ICD
affect diagnosis.
- AO3-DSM is
culturally biased
- the degree to which
different raters give
consistent estimates
of the same
behaviour
- Test-retest reliability
- AO1
- assesses the external
consistency of the test
- WILKS ET AL
- the test-retest reliability
was high when looking at
screening tests for Sz
- AO2
- ROSENHAN
- there is difficulty in distinguishing between
normality and and abnormality, once admitted
patients became their illness
- PRESCOTT ET AL
- analysed test-retest of several measures of attention and
information in 14 chronic Sz patients found that performances
on these measures were stable over 6 months
- this shows high
reliability
- AO3-longitudinal
- Validity
- does the diagnosis represent something real and distinct and
measure what it claims to
- comorbidity
- AO1
- presence of one or more additional
disorders co-occuring with a primary
disorder
- BUCKLEY
- comorbid depression occurs in 50% of patients, 47%
also have a lifelong diagnosis of comorbid substance
abuse, creating difficulties in the diagnosis/treatment
- AO2
- WEBER ET AL
- morbidity and mortality from general
medical conditions are elevated among
patients with Sz compared with general
US population. >50% of those with Sz have
one or more comorbid psychiatric or
general medical conditions
- Supports-more than half Sz go on to have another disorder
- KESSLER ET AL
- only a minority of those with mental
disorders were found to have received
professional treatment during the
proceeding 12 months. Those with
comorbid disorders - more likely to
receive treatment however comorbidiity
can affect treatment
- shows that difficulties can occur
- Predictive validity
- AO1
- the degree to which a test accurately
predicts a critereon that will occur in the
future
- AO2
- BENTALL ET AL
- Sz is not a useful scientific category
as symptoms are also found in other
mental disorders
- People with Sz don't always share
the same prognosis therefore
there is little predictive validity
- HARRISON
- social skills, academic
achievement and family
tolerance may influence
prognosis
- All cases can be different and therefore
lacks predictive validity and test-retest
reliability is difficult to achieve