Screening instruments for substance-use disorders

The MINI is a brief, structured diagnostic interview, for the assessment of Axis I psychiatric disorders.^[1,2] The MINI was designed to provide a short, accurate psychiatric interview to standardize the evaluation of DSM-IV (and ICD-10) criteria in clinical and epidemiological studies, as well as non-research clinical settings.^[2] Since its inception, the MINI has been updated to map to DSM-5 criteria.^[5] The MINI was designed as a short, simple interview, for which clinicians require only limited training to administer.^[2] The validity and reliability of the MINI has been tested and confirmed against much longer structured interviews, and/or in relation to expert opinion.^[2]

Similar to the MINI, the SCID has undergone updates in accordance with updates to the DSM.^[3,4] The SCID-5 maps to the DSM-5, and has been used to study psychiatric diagnoses in psychiatric patients, as well as in various non-medical settings.^[3,4]

References:
[1] Lecrubier Y, Sheehan DV, Weiller E, et al. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). A short diagnostic structured interview: reliability and validity according to the CIDI. Eur Psychiatry 1997; 12 (5): 224–231.

[2] Sheehan DV, Lecrubier Y, Sheehan KH, et al. The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.): the development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. J Clin Psychiatry 1998; 59 (Suppl 20): 22–33.

[3] American Psychiatric Association (APA) Publishing. Accessed November 2021.

[4] Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Accessed November 2021.

[5] Harms Research. Available at. Accessed November 2021.