DSM-5 Field Trials in the United States and Canada, Part I: Study Design, Sampling Strategy, Implementation, and Analytic Approaches

The authors acknowledge the efforts of Paul Harris, Ph.D., and his research team at Vanderbilt University, including Brenda Minor, Jon Scherdin, and Rob Taylor, for assistance and support provided during the development of the DSM-5 Field Trial REDCap System and throughout the DSM-5 Field Trials. The authors would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the temporary research staff (Alison Newcomer, June Kim, and Mellisha McKitty) and research interns in the APA Division of Research and graduate students in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Flora J. Or and Grace P. Lee) for their research support. Last, the authors would like to acknowledge the research coordinators across the DSM-5 Field Trial sites, without whose concerted efforts in learning, implementing, and adhering to the procedures involved in this complex multisite study the field trials would not have been possible.

Research coordinators at the adult field trial sites: Natalie St. Cyr, M.A., Nora Nazarian, and Colin Shinn (The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.); Gloria I. Leo, M.A., Sarah A. McGee Ng, Eleanor J. Liu, Ph.D., Bahar Haji-Khamneh, M.A., Anissa D. Bachan, and Olga Likhodi, M.Sc. (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ont., Canada); Jeannie B. Whitman, Ph.D., Sharjeel Farooqui, M.D., Dana Downs, M.S., M.S.W., Julia Smith, Psy.D., Robert Devereaux, Elizabeth Anderson, Carissa Barney, Kun-Ying H. Sung, Solaleh Azimipour, Sunday Adewuyi, and Kristie Cavazos (Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, Tex.); Melissa Hernandez, Fermin Alejandro Carrizales, Patrick M. Smith, Nicole B. Watson, M.A., and Martha Dahl (University of Texas San Antonio School of Medicine, San Antonio, Tex.); Kathleen Grout, M.A., Sarah Neely, Lea Kiefer, M.P.H., Jana Tran, M.A., Steve Herrera, and Allison Kalpakci (Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and the Menninger Clinic, Houston, Tex.); Lisa Seymour, Sherrie Hanna, Cynthia Stoppel, Kelly Harper, Scott Feeder, and Katie Mingo (Integrated Mood Clinic & Unit and the Behavioral Medicine Program at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.); Jordan Coello and Eric Wang (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Research coordinators at the pediatric field trial sites: Kate Arnow, Stephanie Manasse, and Nandini Datta (Stanford University Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic and the Behavioral Medicine Clinic, Palo Alto, Calif.); Laurie Burnside, M.S.M., C.C.R.C., Darci Anderson, Heather Kennedy, M.P.H., Elizabeth Wallace, Vanessa Waruinge, and Amanda Millar (The Children’s Hospital, Aurora, Colo.); Julie Kingsbury, C.C.R.P., and Brenda Martin (Child Behavioral Health, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass.); Zvi Shapiro, Julia Carmody, Alex Eve Keller, Sarah Pearlstein Levy, Stephanie Hundt, and Tess Dougherty (New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University, New York, N.Y.; Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry at Payne Whitney Manhattan Division, New York, N.Y.; North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, Roslyn Heights, N.Y.; and Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry at Payne Whitney Westchester Division, White Plains, N.Y.).