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Validation, reliability, and specificity of CliniCom™ Psychiatric Assessment Software.
Psychiatry Res. 2018 07;265:334-340
Authors: Handal N, LePage J, Dayley P, Baldwin B, Roeser A, Kay J, Theobald HA, Nellamattathil M, Drotar S, Weir C, Tindell N, Tice K
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the specificity and reproducibility of CliniCom™ Psychiatric Assessment Software to appropriately diagnose five prevalent mental health disorders. This online assessment tool incorporates proprietary algorithms for its propensity assessment. Unlike other questionnaires, which require a survey per specific mental disorder, CliniCom can simultaneously assess multiple mental disorders for an individual. CliniCom was concordant with other commonly used assessment tools in diagnosing five prevalent disorders including: Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Social Phobia. The online tool was overall 78% concordant in diagnosing the same disorder during a test-retest analysis. When subjects exhibited two, three, or four disorders, the tool was less consistent in diagnosing the same set of disorders during the test-retest analysis (53% concordant). However, if evaluated as individual disorders within subjects, the more persistent disorders had a higher rate of concordance: MDD (83.3%), ADHD (81.0%), and OCD (68.4%). This study proposes CliniCom as an online assessment tool that demonstrates specificity in identifying specific psychiatric conditions and shows reproducibility over multiple administrations.
PMID: 29778712 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
via https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29778712?dopt=Abstract