SCID-I is a semi-structured interview conducted to diagnose Axis I disorders according to DSM-IV. The interview modules deal with: affective disorders, psychotic disorders, substance-related disorders, anxiety and somatophormic disorders, eating disorders and adaptation disorders.

The SCID interview can usually be conducted during one session of 60 or 90 minutes, duration depending on how comprehensive is a patient's history of his/her psychiatric treatment and on his/her ability to describe concisely his/her psychopatological symptoms. After SCID-I has been conducted, usually SCID-II is used (sometimes the next day).

The SCID interview was designed to meet the requirements of both researchers and clinical practitioners. This means that the instrument should be detailed enough to satisfy scholars, but also convenient enough to be used in clinical practice. The Polish translation is a detailed research version  which allows for modular examination (the interview directed at particular selected disorders).

The SCID interview does not require computer program in order to make a final DSM-IV diagnosis. However, to make computer statistical analysis and data comparison easier, numbers referring to data fields were inserted in both the score chart and in the SCID modules.   

SCID I MODULES:

• SCID-I Scores Summary Card
• SCID-I Initial interview
• Module A. Episodes of mood disorders
• Module B. Psychotic symptoms and other symptoms accompanying psychosis
• Module C. Psychotic disorders
• Module B/C. Screening questions for psychotic symptoms. An abbreviated version of modules B and C for the use in screening, to determine whether a psychotic symptom was ever present, but not to allow for a differential diagnosis
• Module D. Mood disorders
• Module E. Substance Use Disorders
• Module Alt-E Substance Use Disorders – Alternative Version. For the use in research to check if there has been abuse or dependence on any substance during one’s lifetime. In the basic version of Module E, it is checked whether the criteria for abuse or dependence on substances from each group have been met.
• Module F. Anxiety disorders
• Module G. Somatic (somatoform) disorders
• Module H. Eating disorders
• Module I. Adjustment disorders
• Module J. Additional disorders

Materials:

• Kit (manual, set of sheets – 5 copies each)
• Manual
• Overview – sheets (5 copies)
• Psychotic screen – sheets (5 copies)
• Screening module – sheets (5 copies)
• Module A sheets (5 copies)
• Module Alt-E sheets (5 copies)
• Module B sheets (5 copies)
• Module B/C sheets (5 copies)
• Module C sheets (5 copies)
• Module D sheets (5 copies)
• Module E sheets (5 copies)
• Module F sheets (5 copies)
• Module G sheets (5 copies)
• Module H sheets (5 copies)
• Module I sheets (5 copies)
• Module J sheets (5 copies)
• A list of substances – sheets (5 copies)
• Summary Score Sheets (5 copies)