Mental Health

Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI): (subject-baseline, subject-follow-up, subject-release) The Brief Symptom Inventory is a widely used self-report measure that contains 53 items of mental health symptoms. There are nine subscales: psychoticism, somatization, depression, hostility, phobic anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, panic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and general anxiety. Three global indices can be generated: global severity index, positive symptom total and positive symptom distress index.
Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI): (subject-baseline, subject-follow-up) The CIDI is a measure used to assess mental disorders as defined by the DSM-IV and ICD-10. The selected modules used in this study are: major depressive disorder, dysthymia, manic episode, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, drug abuse and drug dependence.
Disruptive Behavior Disorder (DBD): (collateral-baseline) Forty-two item measure to assess the parent's view of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the adolescent. Questions address the current time period and the elementary school years.
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI): (subject-follow-up) The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is an inventory of adult personality designed to provide information on critical clinical variables. The full PAI contains 344 items which comprise 22 non-overlapping scales. It is designed to be used with individuals from age 18 to adult. Two of the clinical scales (borderline and antisocial features) were administered one time to the Pathways study participants between the time of their 72-month and 84-month interviews. Study participant were an average age 21-22 at the time of administration.
Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS): (subject-baseline) Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) of thirty-seven items that measure generalized anxiety of the subject. The questions inquire if the subject has felt angry, nervous, fearful, or worried, and if he/she has had trouble sleeping and has had hurt feelings.
Threat Control Override (TCO): (subject-baseline, subject-follow-up) Three questions are used to assess the presence of delusional symptoms that have been associated with violence. Specifically, the items assess the belief that people are seeking to do them harm or that outside forces are in control of their mind.