The NetSCID-5 is an online version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5, developed and marketed in consultation with the SCID-5 authors by TeleSage, Inc. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[1]

NetSCID-5 is offered as an online service with user accounts and payment per-administration. Diagnoses and response data are made available in the form of reports and raw data download.

TeleSage currently offers the NetSCID-5 in Research, Clinician, and Personality Disorders versions. The content (e.g. text, branching and scoring) of each of these instruments is intended to match the corresponding paper version.

Initial development was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Public availability was announced June 30, 2017.[2]

Acceptance edit

The NetSCID-5 has been used in clinical studies, such as:

  • Lithium treatment for bipolar disorder vs healthy subjects[3]
  • Comorbidities with emetophobia[4]
  • Heart failure multimorbidities[5]

Training on the use of the NetSCID-5 has been offered by independent organizations.[6]

Experience with NetSCID-5 has been listed as a qualification in job postings.[7]

Computerized versions of mental health interviews has been suggested by some research to result in fewer branching and scoring errors compared to pencil-and-paper versions of the same instruments.[8]

Competitors edit

An electronic versions of the SCID-5 instrument is also offered with eInterview from Sunilion Software[9][10]

References edit

  1. ^ Brodey BB, First M, Linthicum J, Haman K, Sasiela JW, Ayer D (April 2016). "Validation of the NetSCID: an automated web-based adaptive version of the SCID". Comprehensive Psychiatry. 66: 67–70. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.10.005. PMC 4800162. PMID 26995238.
  2. ^ "TeleSage, Inc. Improves Accuracy In Behavioral Health Diagnoses". Markets Insiders. Insider Inc. and Finanzen.net GmbH. 30 June 2017.
  3. ^ Necus J, Smith FE, Thelwall PE, Flowers CJ, Sinha N, Taylor PN, et al. (February 2021). "Quantification of brain proton longitudinal relaxation (T1 ) in lithium-treated and lithium-naïve patients with bipolar disorder in comparison to healthy controls". Bipolar Disorders. 23 (1): 41–48. doi:10.1111/bdi.12878. PMC 7891392. PMID 31755171.
  4. ^ Sykes M, Boschen MJ, Conlon EG (July 2016). "Comorbidity in Emetophobia (Specific Phobia of Vomiting)". Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. 23 (4): 363–7. doi:10.1002/cpp.1964. PMID 26017849.
  5. ^ Freedland KE, Skala JA, Carney RM, Steinmeyer BC, Rich MW (April 13, 2021). "Psychosocial Syndemics and Multimorbidity in Patients with Heart Failure ". Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science. 6 (2). doi:10.20900/jpbs.20210006. PMC 8096199. PMID 33954261.
  6. ^ "SCID; NetSCID; Mental Health Diagnosis". The International Organisation of Forensic Practitioners (TIOFP).
  7. ^ "Clinical Interviewing Team Lead". RTI International Careers. Durham, North Carolina, United States: Research Triangle Institute (RTI).
  8. ^ Townsend L, Kobak K, Kearney C, Milham M, Andreotti C, Escalera J, et al. (February 2020). "Development of Three Web-Based Computerized Versions of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Child Psychiatric Diagnostic Interview: Preliminary Validity Data". Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 59 (2): 309–325. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2019.05.009. PMID 31108163. S2CID 160014464.
  9. ^ "What is the SCID-5?". Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. July 11, 2018.
  10. ^ "The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5®". American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Washington, DC.

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