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IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

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Preface<br />

One of the major goals of the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Organization</strong>'s (WHO)<br />

Mental <strong>Health</strong> Programme has been the development of a common language<br />

for worldwide use by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.<br />

The WHONIH Joint Project on Diagnosis and Classification of<br />

Mental Disorders, Alcohol- and Drug-related Problems is the most<br />

recent endeavour in this programme. It has developed a number of diagnostic<br />

instruments for the assessment of mental disorders in different<br />

cultures and tested them for their cross-cultural applicability, reliability<br />

and<br />

One of these instruments, the Composite International Diagnostic<br />

Interview (CIDI)? is highly structured and intended for use by lay interviewers<br />

in epidemiological studies. Another, the Schedules for Clinical<br />

Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN),4 is a semi-structured interview<br />

for use by clinicians, i.e., those capable of making independent psychiatric<br />

diagnoses. Since neither interview covers personality disorders, it<br />

was necessary to develop an instrument to assess them according to criteria<br />

in the latest classification systems.<br />

The new instrument, the International Personality Disorder<br />

Examination (<strong>IPDE</strong>), has been developed from the Personality Disorder<br />

Examination (PDE).5 which was modified for international use and compatibility<br />

with the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision<br />

(ICD-10). and the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and<br />

Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV). The<br />

current version of the <strong>IPDE</strong> has been produced in two modules, one for<br />

ICD-10 and one for DSM-IV criteria for personality disorders.<br />

The <strong>IPDE</strong> was tested in a major international field trial at 14 centres in<br />

11 countries in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The primary<br />

objectives were to determine its cultural acceptability, user-friendliness,<br />

interrater reliability and temporal stability. In the course of the field uial<br />

a large body of data on personality disorders in different cultures was<br />

collected. This book describes the uial, and it also addresses several

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