Objective Two previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) found that
different diagnostic interviews classify different proportions of people as having major
depression overall or by symptom levels. We compared the odds of major depression
classification across diagnostic interviews among studies that administered the Depression
subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D). Methods Data accrued
for an IPDMA on HADS-D diagnostic accuracy were analysed. We fit binomial generalized …

Introduction: Three previous individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) reported
that, compared to the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM (SCID), alternative reference
standards, primarily the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the Mini
International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), tended to misclassify major depression
status, when controlling for depression symptom severity. However, there was an important
lack of precision in the results. Objective: To compare the odds of the major depression …