ReviewInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2013
A review of the reliability and validity of OPCRIT in relation to its use for the routine clinical assessment of mental health patients.
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- Harnessing clinical psychiatric data with an electronic assessment tool (OPCRIT+): the utility of symptom dimensions.PloS one · 2013Trial
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- An observer-rated strategy for differentiating schizophrenic and manic states in inpatient settings.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychosocial markers of age at onset in bipolar disorder: a machine learning approach.BJPsych open · 2022Article
- Outcomes in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: symptoms, function and clozapine plasma concentrations.Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Mental health problems and socioeconomic disadvantage: a controlled household study in rural Ethiopia.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for households of people with severe mental disorder: a comparative study in rural Ethiopia.International journal of mental health systems · 2019Article
- The ICD-11 developmental field study of reliability of diagnoses of high-burden mental disorders: results among adult patients in mental health settings of 13 countries.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2018Article
- A comparison of mental state examination documentation by junior clinicians in electronic health records before and after the introduction of a semi-structured assessment template (OPCRIT+).International journal of medical informatics · 2015Article
- Validation of a Population-Based Algorithm to Detect Chronic Psychotic Illness.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2015Article
- Skating on thin ice: pragmatic prescribing for medication refractory schizophrenia.BMC psychiatry · 2015Observational
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Abstract
The OPCRIT program is a symptom checklist with accompanying algorithms producing operationally defined diagnoses. We undertook a review of studies which had used OPCRIT and had reported statistics concerning its reliability and validity, producing summary measures from 44 studies. The first main measure of interest was inter-rater reliability where mean kappa values indicated that agreement between raters was "substantial" with a marginal improvement at the diagnostic (0.76) versus individual item (0.69) level. The second main measure of interest was convergent validity - the agreement between OPCRIT and clinical diagnoses. Most studies reported these figures as concordance rates suggesting mean agreement, unadjusted for chance, of 69%. Very few studies used the chance-adjusted kappa statistic but where this was used agreement was "fair" (0.39). Agreement between OPCRIT and other research diagnoses was "moderate" (0.60). We also considered differences between the way OPCRIT has traditionally been used in research settings and the naturalistic manner in which it will be employed in the hospital ward. This review provides a summary of the reliability and validity of OPCRIT, which will be considered during the preparation for its use in the routine characterization of mental health patients in clinical settings.
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