@article{36b57e92b8b4436a90032601b5b883a1,
title = "Building a standardized alcoholism interview schedule",
abstract = "The Clinical Alcoholism Interview Schedule (CAIS) is being developed as a standardized instrument for initial assessment of alcoholic patients and as a research tool. Fifty questions cover key areas of clinical concern, and accompanying guidelines describe the method of administration. An initial study of inter-rater reliability has been conducted with five raters independently rating taped interviews with each of ten patients. Agreement was assessed both by percentage agreement and by weighted Kappa. Detailed results, which are presented, in general show a fairly satisfactory level of reliability except for certain identified items which include the Jellinek classification of type of alcoholism.",
author = "Raul Caetano and Griffith Edwabds and Oppenheim, {A. N.} and Colin Taylor",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the Medical Council on Alcoholism for electing Raul Caetano to a Fellowship which supported him throughout this project, and to Admiral Sir Dick Caldwell (Executive Director of the M.C.A.) for much useful advice; the Addiction Research Unit is otherwise supported by joint funding from the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health and Social Security. We are grateful to Dr. Hamid Ghodse, Dr. I. Karniol, and Dr. A. Thorley for assistingi n the rating of tapes, and to the patients who so kindly collaborated. Helpful comments on a draft of this paper were received from Dr. Ray Hodgson, Dr. Gloria Litman, Dr. David Robinson, Dr. Michael Russell, Miss Margaret Sheehan, Dr. Alan Sippert, and Miss Claire Wilson. Mrs. Julia Polglaze once more provided infallible secretarial assistance.",
year = "1978",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/0376-8716(78)90040-6",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "3",
pages = "185--197",
journal = "Drug and Alcohol Dependence",
issn = "0376-8716",
publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
number = "3",
}