The assessment of affective disorders in children and adolescents by semistructured interview. Test-retest reliability of the schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia for school-age children, present episode version.

@article{Chambers1985TheAO,
  title={The assessment of affective disorders in children and adolescents by semistructured interview. Test-retest reliability of the schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia for school-age children, present episode version.},
  author={W J Chambers and Joaquim Puig-Antich and Mary Hirsch and P. S{\'a}nchez P{\'a}ez and Paul J. Ambrosini and Mary Ann Tabrizi and Mark Davies},
  journal={Archives of general psychiatry},
  year={1985},
  volume={42 7},
  pages={
          696-702
        }
}
The reliability of assessment of Research Diagnostic Criteria and DSM-III axis I affective disorders in children and adolescents was studied using a semistructured diagnostic interview. The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) for School-Age Children (Kiddie SADS) Present Episode Version, an adaptation of the adult SADS for children was used. Fifty-two subjects, aged 6 through 17 years, were interviewed in a test-retest format by one of three pairs of interviewers… 
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