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Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress
Psychological Medicine · 2002 · Vol. 32(6) · pp. 959–976
Ronald C. Kessler✉(Harvard University)Gavin Andrews(Massachusetts Mental Health Center)Lisa J. Colpe(Massachusetts Mental Health Center)Eva Hiripi(Harvard University Press)Daniel K. Mroczek(Massachusetts Mental Health Center)Sharon‐Lise T. Normand(Harvard University Press)Ellen E. Walters(Massachusetts Mental Health Center)A. M. Zaslavsky(Harvard University Press)
Abstract
The brevity, strong psychometric properties, and ability to discriminate DSM-IV cases from non-cases make the K10 and K6 attractive for use in general-purpose health surveys. The scales are already being used in annual government health surveys in the US and Canada as well as in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. Routine inclusion of either the K10 or K6 in clinical studies would create an important, and heretofore missing, crosswalk between community and clinical epidemiology.
Mental Health Treatment and AccessMental Health Research TopicsSchizophrenia research and treatmentNational Health Interview SurveyDistressPercentilePopulationPsychologyTelephone interviewScale (ratio)Mental healthClinical psychologyMedicine
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AdultMental DisordersFemaleHumansMalePilot ProjectsPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesROC CurveStress, PsychologicalUnited StatesReproducibility of ResultsPrevalence
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