Schizophrenia (diagnosis in terms of reliability and validity)

Question 1

What is used to diagnose schizophrenia?

Answer 1

ICD-10 and DSM-5

Question 2

What does reliability concern in terms of schizophrenia?

Answer 2

The consistency of diagnosis, the consistency of symptom measurement

Question 3

What are the two ways of assessing reliability for schizophrenia?

Answer 3

Test retest - when a clinician makes the same diagnosis on separate occasions from the same information
Inter-rater - when two different clinicians make identical independent diagnoses of the same patient