PMID- 12019033
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040504
LR  - 20240314
IS  - 1471-244X (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-244X (Linking)
VI  - 2
DP  - 2002 May 17
TI  - Reliability and cultural applicability of the Greek version of the International 
      Personality Disorders Examination.
PG  - 6
AB  - BACKGROUND: The International Personality Disorders Examination (IPDE) 
      constitutes the proposal of the WHO for the reliable diagnosis of personality 
      disorders (PD). The IPDE assesses pathological personality and is compatible both 
      with DSM-IV and ICD-10 diagnosis. However it is important to test the reliability 
      and cultural applicability of different IPDE translations. METHODS: Thirty-one 
      patients (12 male and 19 female) aged 35.25 +/- 11.08 years, took part in the 
      study. Three examiners applied the interview (23 interviews of two and 8 
      interviews of 3 examiners, that is 47 pairs of interviews and 70 single 
      interviews). The phi coefficient was used to test categorical diagnosis agreement 
      and the Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient to test agreement 
      concerning the number of criteria met. RESULTS: Translation and back-translation 
      did not reveal specific problems. Results suggested that reliability of the Greek 
      translation is good. However, socio-cultural factors (family coherence, work 
      environment etc) could affect the application of some of the IPDE items in 
      Greece. The diagnosis of any PD was highly reliable with phi >0.92. However, 
      diagnosis of non-specific PD was not reliable at all (phi close to 0) suggesting 
      that this is a true residual category. Diagnosis of specific PDs were highly 
      reliable with the exception of schizoid PD. Diagnosis of antisocial and 
      Borderline PDs were perfectly reliable with phi equal to 1.00. CONCLUSIONS: The 
      Greek translation of the IPDE is a reliable instrument for the assessment of 
      personality disorder but cultural variation may limit its applicability in 
      international comparisons.
FAU - Fountoulakis, K N
AU  - Fountoulakis KN
AD  - 3rd Department of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. 
      kfount@med.auth.gr
FAU - Iacovides, A
AU  - Iacovides A
FAU - Ioannidou, Ch
AU  - Ioannidou Ch
FAU - Bascialla, F
AU  - Bascialla F
FAU - Nimatoudis, I
AU  - Nimatoudis I
FAU - Kaprinis, G
AU  - Kaprinis G
FAU - Janca, A
AU  - Janca A
FAU - Dahl, A
AU  - Dahl A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20020517
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Psychiatry
JT  - BMC psychiatry
JID - 100968559
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Culture
MH  - Female
MH  - Greece
MH  - Humans
MH  - International Classification of Diseases/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Personality Disorders/*diagnosis/psychology
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Translations
MH  - World Health Organization
PMC - PMC116573
EDAT- 2002/05/23 10:00
MHDA- 2004/05/05 05:00
PMCR- 2002/05/17
CRDT- 2002/05/23 10:00
PHST- 2001/11/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2002/05/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2002/05/23 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/05/05 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/05/23 10:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2002/05/17 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-244X-2-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-244x-2-6 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Psychiatry. 2002 May 17;2:6. doi: 10.1186/1471-244x-2-6.