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IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

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121 Administration of the <strong>IPDE</strong><br />

the <strong>IPDE</strong> and have achieved a basic proficiency after having given about<br />

10 interviews. As they examine more patients, they will find themselves<br />

making less use of the guides for questioning and scoring, but occasional<br />

reference to them is to be expected even by the seasoned examiner. We<br />

strongly recommend that those who wish to obtain the optimal training<br />

in the use of the <strong>IPDE</strong>, enrol1 in the course offered at one of the worldwide<br />

WHO training centres.<br />

Administration of the <strong>IPDE</strong><br />

If the interview should take more than one to one and a half hours, there<br />

is danger that the examiner will not pursue responses with the same alertness<br />

and thomugbness, and that the subject's replies will become briefer<br />

and more perfunctory. In those circumstances the interview should be<br />

given on more than one occasion, if possible. However, interruptions in<br />

the middle of a section should be avoided.<br />

The <strong>IPDE</strong> can only be administered properly when the examiner conducts<br />

an adequate clinical examination of the subject with appropriate<br />

probing to solicit examples, anecdotes, and additional details. This<br />

requires a thorough knowledge of the scope and meaning of each criterion<br />

and a corn application of the scoring guidelines. Ultimately.<br />

many of these become familiar to examiners, and there is no need townstantly<br />

refer to them during the interview.<br />

Initial replies of the subject that suggest a positive rating are m ly<br />

sufficient for scoring a criterion. They must be supplemented and supposed<br />

by convincing descriptions or examples. Examiners must use<br />

their clinical judgement to determine the length of the descriptions and<br />

the number of examples that are required. When in doubt, they should<br />

always ask for more rather than less. However, they should avoid 'leading<br />

the witness,' or being influenced by a 'halo' effect. For example, if<br />

the subject has already met three of the required four criteria for a diagnosis,<br />

the examples regarding a possible fourtb criterion should not be<br />

viewed any differently than if the subject had previously not met any criterion.<br />

Interviewers should not hesitate to tactfully inquire about apparent<br />

contradictions in responses. Although the examiners should score the<br />

interview as they go along, they should comt the scoring of an earlier<br />

item, when subsequent information elicited during the interview requires<br />

it. Recording the subject's responses verbatim is not required, but it can<br />

pmvide a permanent record of a considerable amount of useful information,<br />

that is not conveyed by diagnoses or dimensional scores alone.

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