Acute dystonic reaction with moderate-dose ziprasidone.

nostic category, and the corresponding Pneg values were all very high: 25 of 28 of them were 0.87 or greater, indicating high negative agreement. The present study is the first reliability study conducted on the Italian version of the MINI. The average duration of the interview, 27 minutes in the interrater and 21 minutes in the retest, was relatively short. Since most of the patients have a psychiatric diagnoses, the average length of the interview was longer than that found in general practice settings (15 minutes) but still acceptable, to be used in routine practice, when a shorter interview is needed, and in studies where it is not possible to use more complex instruments. Although the results of the analyses performed indicated an interrater reliability similar, or even superior, to that reported by previous studies, testretest reliability showed relatively low j values in this sample. The main reasons for the discrepancies between test and retest j values were identified as (i) the high prevalence of patients who did not receive a psychiatric diagnosis that produced the lowering of j and (ii) the length of time between test and retest. The MINI is probably sensitive to changes over time and allows the identification of minor modifications of the patients’ clinical conditions. However, further research may be useful for further assessing the reliability of the Italian version of this instrument, across 2 separate interviews, with a shorter time period between the interviews.