PMID- 3579500
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19870619
LR  - 20230306
IS  - 0003-990X (Print)
IS  - 0003-990X (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 6
DP  - 1987 Jun
TI  - The Longitudinal Interval Follow-up Evaluation. A comprehensive method for 
      assessing outcome in prospective longitudinal studies.
PG  - 540-8
AB  - The Longitudinal Interval Follow-up Evaluation (LIFE) is an integrated system for 
      assessing the longitudinal course of psychiatric disorders. It consists of a 
      semistructured interview, an Instruction booklet, a coding sheet, and a set of 
      training materials. An interviewer uses the LIFE to collect detailed 
      psychosocial, psychopathologic, and treatment information for a six-month 
      follow-up interval. The weekly psychopathology measures ("psychiatric status 
      ratings") are ordinal symptom-based scales with categories defined to match the 
      levels of symptoms used in the Research Diagnostic Criteria. The ratings provide 
      a separate, concurrent record of the course of each disorder initially diagnosed 
      in patients or developing during the follow-up. Any DSM-III or Research 
      Diagnostic Criteria disorder can be rated with the LIFE, and any length or number 
      of follow-up intervals can be accommodated. The psychosocial and treatment 
      information is recorded so that these data can be linked temporally to the 
      psychiatric status ratings.
FAU - Keller, M B
AU  - Keller MB
FAU - Lavori, P W
AU  - Lavori PW
FAU - Friedman, B
AU  - Friedman B
FAU - Nielsen, E
AU  - Nielsen E
FAU - Endicott, J
AU  - Endicott J
FAU - McDonald-Scott, P
AU  - McDonald-Scott P
FAU - Andreasen, N C
AU  - Andreasen NC
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 MH025478/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 MH051415/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 MH059691/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Arch Gen Psychiatry
JT  - Archives of general psychiatry
JID - 0372435
RN  - 0 (Psychotropic Drugs)
SB  - IM
MH  - Data Collection/methods
MH  - Electroconvulsive Therapy
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Mental Disorders/classification/diagnosis/*therapy
MH  - Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care/*methods
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - *Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychotherapy
MH  - Psychotropic Drugs/therapeutic use
MH  - Social Adjustment
EDAT- 1987/06/01 00:00
MHDA- 1987/06/01 00:01
CRDT- 1987/06/01 00:00
PHST- 1987/06/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1987/06/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1987/06/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800180050009 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1987 Jun;44(6):540-8. doi: 
      10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800180050009.