Brooke LevisAndrea BenedettiKira E. RiehmNazanin SaadatAlexander W. LevisMarleine AzarDanielle B. RiceMatthew J. ChiovittiTatiana A. SanchezPim CuijpersSimon GilbodyJohn P.A. IoannidisLorie A. KlodaDean McMillanScott B. PattenIan ShrierRussell J. SteeleRoy C. ZiegelsteinDickens H. AkenaBruce ArrollLiat AyalonHamid R. BaradaranMurray BaronAnna BeraldiCharles H. BombardierPeter ButterworthGregory CarterMarcos H. ChagasJuliana C.N. ChanRushina CholeraNeerja ChowdharyKerrie CloverYeates ConwellJanneke M. De Man-Van GinkelJaime DelgadilloJesse R. FannFelix H. FischerBenjamin FischlerDaniel FungBizu GelayeFelicity Goodyear-SmithCatherine G. GreenoBrian J. HallJohn HambridgePatricia A. HarrisonUlrich HegerlLeanne HidesStevan E. HobfollMarie HudsonThomas HyphantisMasatoshi InagakiKhalida IsmailNathalie JettéMohammad E. KhamsehKim M. KielyFemke LamersShen Ing LiuManote LotrakulSonia R. LoureiroBernd LöweLaura MarshAnthony McGuireSherina Mohd SidikTiago N. MunhozKumiko MuramatsuFlávia L. 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Vol.212, No.6 (2018), 377-38514721465000712502-s2.0-85053536637https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/46659Copyright © 2018 The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Background: Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully structured interviews are completely scripted. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), a brief fully structured interview, is also sometimes used. It is not known whether interview method is associated with probability of major depression classification. Aims: To evaluate the association between interview method and odds of major depression classification, controlling for depressive symptom scores and participant characteristics. Method: Data collected for an individual participant data meta-analysis of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) diagnostic accuracy were analysed and binomial generalised linear mixed models were fit. Results: A total of 17 158 participants (2287 with major depression) from 57 primary studies were analysed. Among fully structured interviews, odds of major depression were higher for the MINI compared with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) (odds ratio (OR) = 2.10; 95% CI = 1.15-3.87). Compared with semi-structured interviews, fully structured interviews (MINI excluded) were non-significantly more likely to classify participants with low-level depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 scores ≤6) as having major depression (OR = 3.13; 95% CI = 0.98-10.00), similarly likely for moderate-level symptoms (PHQ-9 scores 7-15) (OR = 0.96; 95% CI = 0.56-1.66) and significantly less likely for high-level symptoms (PHQ-9 scores ≥16) (OR = 0.50; 95% CI = 0.26-0.97). Conclusions: The MINI may identify more people as depressed than the CIDI, and semi-structured and fully structured interviews may not be interchangeable methods, but these results should be replicated.Mahidol UniversityMedicineReviewSCOPUS10.1192/bjp.2018.54