Concordance between the diagnostic guidelines for alcohol and cannabis use disorders in the draft ICD-11 and other classification systems: analysis of data from the WHO's World Mental Health Surveys.

Journal: Addiction (Abingdon, England)

Volume: 114

Issue: 3

Year of Publication: 2020

Affiliated Institutions:  National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW, Sydney, Australia. School of Medicine (Psychology), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Department of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research (DESPR), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, USA. Health Services Research Unit, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain. Núcleo de Epidemiologia Psiquiátrica - LIM , Instituto de Psiquiatria Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. School of Psychology, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom. Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Chronic Diseases Research Center (CEDOC), NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Anxiety Disorders Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Balamand University, Beirut, Lebanon. Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital, Alshifaa, Mosul, Iraq. Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Wacol, Australia. Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland. Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong. Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Unidad de Docencia, Investigación y Formación en Salud Mental (UDIF-SM), Servicio Murciano de Salud, Murcia, Spain. National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development Bucharest, Romania. Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Center for Excellence on Research in Mental Health, CES University, Medellin, Colombia. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract summary 

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) proposed International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition (ICD-11) includes several major revisions to substance use disorder (SUD) diagnoses. It is essential to ensure the consistency of within-subject diagnostic findings throughout countries, languages and cultures. To date, agreement analyses between different SUD diagnostic systems have largely been based in high-income countries and clinical samples rather than general population samples. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of, and concordance between diagnoses using the ICD-11, The WHO's ICD 10th edition (ICD-10) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th and 5th editions (DSM-IV, DSM-5); the prevalence of disaggregated ICD-10 and ICD-11 symptoms; and variation in clinical features across diagnostic groups.Cross-sectional household surveys.Representative surveys of the general population in 10 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain) of the World Mental Health Survey Initiative.Questions about SUDs were asked of 12 182 regular alcohol users and 1788 cannabis users.Each survey used the World Mental Health Survey Initiative version of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview version 3.0 (WMH-CIDI).Among regular alcohol users, prevalence (95% confidence interval) of life-time ICD-11 alcohol harmful use and dependence were 21.6% (20.5-22.6%) and 7.0% (6.4-7.7%), respectively. Among cannabis users, 9.3% (7.4-11.1%) met criteria for ICD-11 harmful use and 3.2% (2.3-4.0%) for dependence. For both substances, all comparisons of ICD-11 with ICD-10 and DSM-IV showed excellent concordance (all κ ≥ 0.9). Concordance between ICD-11 and DSM-5 ranged from good (for SUD and comparisons of dependence and severe SUD) to poor (for comparisons of harmful use and mild SUD). Very low endorsement rates were observed for new ICD-11 feature for harmful use ('harm to others'). Minimal variation in clinical features was observed across diagnostic systems.The World Health Organization's proposed International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition (ICD-11) classifications for substance use disorder diagnoses are highly consistent with the ICD 10th edition and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV). Concordance between ICD-11 and the DSM 5th edition (DSM-5) varies, due largely to low levels of agreement for the ICD harmful use and DSM-5 mild use disorder. Diagnostic validity of self-reported 'harm to others' is questionable.

Authors & Co-authors:  Degenhardt Louisa L Bharat Chrianna C Bruno Raimondo R Glantz Meyer D MD Sampson Nancy A NA Lago Luise L Aguilar-Gaxiola Sergio S Alonso Jordi J Andrade Laura Helena LH Bunting Brendan B Caldas-de-Almeida Jose Miguel JM Cia Alfredo H AH Gureje Oye O Karam Elie G EG Khalaf Mohammad M McGrath John J JJ Moskalewicz Jacek J Lee Sing S Mneimneh Zeina Z Navarro-Mateu Fernando F Sasu Carmen C CC Scott Kate K Torres Yolanda Y Poznyak Vladimir V Chatterji Somnath S Kessler Ronald C RC

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Authors :  27
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1111/add.14482
SSN : 1360-0443
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Alcoholism
Other Terms
Alcohol;DSM;ICD;World Mental Health Surveys;cannabis;diagnosis;substance use disorder
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Country of Study
Publication Country
England