Reliability of Mental-Health Interviews Varies, New Study Finds
A Jama Network Open review finds that diagnostic interviews for mental health and substance-use disorders vary in reliability, with better consistency for substance-use conditions and highest reliability for opioid use disorder; fully structured interviews tend to be more reliable than semi-structured ones, but data are limited and reporting often unclear, prompting calls for more rigorous comparisons of instruments and possibly a shift toward spectrum-based diagnoses.
