Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire

Defence styles and other risk factors for eating disorders among female adolescents: a case–control study

“…Depressive trait was assessed by two questions from the Cornell Medical Index health questionnaire (Broadman et al, 1956), and adapted to the style, scoring and response options of the Trait Anxiety Inventory. The two depressive trait questions dealt with a general tendency to have manifest depressive mood.…”

Child and parent factors that influence psychological problems in obese children

“…Standardized t scores were used for the multiple regression analysis, and statistical cutoffs for patients samples used to assess the percentage of obese children who meet or exceeded clinical levels for Competence (~3 3 ) or Behavior Problem (367) subscales (Achenbach, 1991). The CMI is a 195-item self-report questionnaire that assesses adult physical and psychiatric complaints (Brodman et al, 1956) and was filled out by both parents. The psychiatric items comprise six scales (scales M-R) that assess inadequacy, depression, anxiety, sensitivity, anger, and tension.…”

Trauma, PTSD, and physical health: An epidemiological study of Australian Vietnam veterans

“…However, even combat scales merely aggregate the frequency or duration of exposure to a range of events, without assessing individual personal reactions of fear, helplessness, or horror, such as peritraumatic dissociation to individually intense events, as required by the diagnostic criteria. Measures of PTSD have ranged from symptom checklists and psychometric scales such as the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PTSD [25] to standardized psychiatric assessment protocols [3,4,6], and physical health measures have ranged from global "body systems scores" [18] to individual clinical diagnoses and blood biochemistry [4,[26][27][28][29][30]. Results also have been inconsistent.…”