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Accuracies and inaccuracies of the family history method: a multivariate approach
M A Roy et al. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1996 Apr.
Abstract
This paper reports on 1459 first-degree relatives of probands with schizophrenia or affective illness and matched community controls. We sought (i) to validate psychiatric diagnoses obtained by family history (FH) against those obtained by a best estimate (BE) procedure based on personal interview and (ii) to explore the factors influencing the accuracy of the FH report. We found relatively poor agreement between the FH and BE diagnoses, and the disagreements were influenced by numerous factors, including gender, psychiatric status of the informant or proband's diagnosis. When validated against a BE diagnosis, the overall accuracy of the FH method is relatively poor, and is furthermore subject to several biases. Therefore, substituting the FH method for BE diagnosis may be an important source of error in the investigation of familial/genetic factors in psychiatric disorders.
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