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. 2021 Mar 10;3(1):e4459. doi: 10.32872/cpe.4459

Table 1. Diagnostic Assessments Utilized Routinely in Outpatient Clinics (Instruments Used by at Least 15% of Clinics).

Instrument % of clinics using instrument
Instruments used for ICD/DSM diagnoses
Adults
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IVa, SCID 89.2
International Diagnostic Checklistb, IDCL 21.6
Diagnostic Interview for Mental Disordersc, DIPS 16.2
Children and adolescents
Diagnostic Interview for Mental Disorders in Childhood and Adolescenced, Kinder-DIPS 85.7
General clinical instruments
Adults
Brief Symptom Inventorye, BSI 62.2
Symptom Checklist 90-Revisedf, SCL 90-R 45.9
Inventory of Interpersonal Problemsg, IIP 27.0
Clinical Global Impressions Scaleh, CGI 24.3
Children and adolescents
Child Behavior Checklisti, CBCL/6-18R 64.3
Youth Self-Report of the Child Behavior Checklisti, YSR/11-18R 57.1
Teacher Report Formi, TRF/6-18R 50.0
Inventory for the Assessment of Life Quality in Children and Adolescentsj, ILK 42.9
Disorder-specific instruments
Adults
Beck Depression Inventoryk, BDI I or BDI II 89.2
Body Sensations Questionnaire, Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire, Mobility Inventoryl 64.9
Screening for Somatoform Symptoms 2m, SOMS 2 56.8
Eating Disorder Inventory 2n, EDI 2 48.6
Social Interaction Anxiety Scaleo, SIAS 48.6
Hamburg Obsessive/Compulsive Inventoryp, HZI 45.9
Social Phobia-Scaleo, SPS 43.2
Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scaleq, PSD 40.5
Impact of Event Scaler, IES 35.1
Eating Inventorys, FEV 29.7
Borderline-Symptom-List-23t, BSL-23 29.7
Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scaleu, Y-BOCS 27.0
Children and adolescents
Children's Depression Inventoryv, DIKJ 64.3
Fear Survey Schedule for Children – Revisedw, PHOKI 57.1
Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Childrenx, SPAIK 35.7
Anxiety Questionnaire for School Studentsy, AFS 35.7