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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000;57:223-224.

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IN THIS issue of the ARCHIVES, Murphy et al^1-2 and Eaton et al³ provide new data to address current issues involving the distinction between psychopathology and normal mental states as well as the assessment of specific mental disorders in community settings.^4-7 The 40-year Stirling County Study¹ and the 13-year follow-up of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study³ provide a valuable longitudinal perspective on the clinical course of persons identified with mental disorders in epidemiologic surveys. Both studies have the added dimension of comparing diagnoses made by nonclinicians using highly structured instruments with diagnoses made by clinicians using structured clinical interviews.

STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW AND HIGHLY STRUCTURED LAY INTERVIEW COMPARISONS

These studies address a nagging concern raised by the high lifetime prevalence rates of mental disorders identified in epidemiologic surveys such as the ECA study,⁸ the National Comorbidity Survey,⁹ and the historic Stirling County Study¹⁰—namely, would rates be much lower if psychiatrists or other mental health specialists could . . . [Full Text of this Article]

VALIDITY OF HIGHLY STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS

A LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVE

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