Table 1 Studies on the validity and reliability of the MINI
Study & language | Participants | Validation | Reliability-analysis | Results, depressive and anxiety disorders | Concordance; Cohen’s kappa mean & range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sheehan et al. [5] English | Psychiatric patients N = 308 Non-patients, N = 62 Total N = 370 | SCID-P1 | Test-retest and inter-rater analyse | Concordance between MINI-CR and SCID-P1 diagnoses | Twenty-two diagnostic categories analysed |
Major depressive disorder kappa:0.84, observed agreement: 92% | Two diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
Inter-rater (kappa) 1.00, Retest (kappa) 0.87 Lifetime panic disorder, kappa: 0.80, observed agreement: 91% | Kappa mean: 0.67, range: 0.43-0.90 | ||||
Inter-rater (kappa)0.97, Retest (kappa) 0.79 | |||||
Lecrubier et al. [4] French | Psychiatric patients N = 260 Non-patients, N = 50 Total N = 310 | CIDI2 | Test-retest and inter-rater analyses | Concordance between MINI and CIDI2 diagnoses | Seventeen diagnostic categories analysed |
Major depressive disorder (kappa) 0.73, observed agreement: 87% Test-retest (kappa) 0.83 | Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
Lifetime panic disorder (kappa) 0.68, observed agreement: 92% Test-retest (kappa) 0.76. | Kappa mean: 0.66, range: 0.36-0.82 | ||||
Inter rater, all diagnoses (kappa) 0.88-1.00 | |||||
Bobes [13] Spanish | Primary health care patients N = 126 | Expert opinion | Inter-rater analysis | Major depression, sensitivity 0.94, specificity 0.62 | No Cohen’s kappa values available |
Generalised anxiety disorder, sensitivity 0.92, specificity 0.65 | |||||
Pinninti et al. [19] English | Psychiatric outpatients N = 111 | Expert opinion | Diagnostic agreement in 58% of the cases In 33% the disagreement was of substantial nature MINI diagnosed more co-morbid conditions | No Cohen’s kappa values available | |
Rossi et al. [14] Italian | Psychiatric outpatients N = 50 | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Major depressive disorder, current: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.96. Test-retest (kappa) 0.46 | Thirty-one diagnoses analysed Inter-rater kappa mean: 0.85, range: 0–1.00 | |
Major depressive disorder, recurrent: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.84. Test-retest (kappa) 0.36 | Test-retest kappa mean: 0.41, range: 0–1.00 | ||||
Panic disorder lifetime: Inter-rater reliability (kappa) 0.88. Test-retest (kappa) 0.49 | Information on diagnoses occurring in less than 5% of participants not available | ||||
Kadri et al. [16] Moroccan | Psychiatric patients N = 175 Non-patients, N = 50 Total N = 225 | Expert opinion | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Concordance between MINI and expert diagnoses Major depressive disorder (kappa) 0.95, observed agreement: 99% | Thirteen diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants |
Social phobia (5% of participants) (kappa) 0.91, obs. agreement: 94% | Kappa mean: 0.91, range: 0.79-0.95 | ||||
Inter-rater and test-retest reliability (kappa) all above 0.80 | |||||
Otsubo et al. [15] Japanese | Psychiatric inpatients AN = 82 BN = 169 | ASCID-P1 B Expert opinion | Inter-rater and test-retest analyses | Concordance between MINI and A SCID-P1/B expert opinion | A Thirteen diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants |
Major depressive disorder, | Kappa mean: 0.71, range: 0.49-0.93 | ||||
A kappa: 0.85, obs. agreement: 93% | B Eleven diagnostic categories analysed Seven diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | ||||
B kappa: 0.36, obs. agreement: 69% | Kappa mean: 0.34, range: 0.03-0.69 | ||||
Panic disorder, A kappa: 092, obs. agreement: 98% | |||||
B kappa: 0.53, obs. agreement: 89% | |||||
MINI test-retest, kappa: 0.80, obs. agreement: 91% | |||||
MINI Inter-rater, kappa: 0.94, obs. agreement: 97% | |||||
Marques & Zuardi [17] Portuguese | Primary health care patients N = 120 | SCID3 | Concordance between MINI and SCID3 diagnoses Depressive disorders, kappa: 0.75, obs. agreement: 92% | Eight diagnostic categories analysed Four diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | |
Anxiety disorders, kappa: 0.81, obs. agreement: 94% | Kappa mean: 0.66, range: 0–0.85 | ||||
Mordal et al. [18] Norwegian | Psychiatric patients, acute ward N = 38 | Test - retest analysis | Concordance of MINI diagnoses in test-retest | Twenty diagnostic categories analysed Six diagnoses occurred in less than 5% of participants | |
Major depressive episode, kappa: 0.82, obs. agreement: 92% | Kappa mean: 0.51, range: 0–1.00 | ||||
Panic disorder, lifetime, kappa: 0.84, obs. agreement: 92% |