The Cornell Index

Weider, Arthur; Brodman, Keeve

doi:10.1097/00006842-194611000-00006

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“…The Cornell Index was assembled as a series of questions referring to symptom complexes, which could differentiate, with statistical reliability, persons with serious personality and psychosomatic disturbances from the rest of the population. [17][18][19][20][21] As a result of the expected normal range of individual scores, we used the sum result for the whole Cornell Index Questionnaire for statistical analysis. The overall sum result indicates the level of emotional stability or neuroticism.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sick Building Syndrome: Psychological, Somatic, and Environmental Determinants

Gomzi

Bobić

Radošević-Vidaček

et al. 2007

Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health

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The authors aimed to examine potential relationships between work-related symptoms attributed to sick building syndrome (SBS) and certain psychological, somatic, and environmental factors. The multidisciplinary, cross-sectional study comprised 171 female subjects working in air-conditioned and naturally ventilated nonindustrial office buildings. The authors collected information concerning symptoms related to SBS and made assessments of quality of life by using appropriate questionnaires. They assessed the women's levels of emotional stability or neuroticism using the Cornell Index. They determined skin and airway reactivity markers and indoor microclimate data by using standardized methods. The study showed that the subjects had a high prevalence of fatigue (60.2%), sore and dry eyes (57.9%), and headache (44.4%), as well as a generally high score according to the SBS Index. Neuroticism and subjectively estimated physical health as well as the type of building ventilation significantly contributed to the prediction of the SBS Index, explaining 15% of the variance.

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Section: Cornell Index-form N3mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sick Building Syndrome: Psychological, Somatic, and Environmental Determinants

Gomzi

Bobić

Radošević-Vidaček

et al. 2007

Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health

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“…The severity of the potential threat is perhaps best and yet crudely reflected in overall mortality. In a study following a Sri Lankan cyclone in which 900 people died, Patrick & Patrick (1981) assessed psychological morbidity using a modification of the Cornell Medical Index (Weider et al 1948). Eighty per cent of the population in the severely affected village demonstrated psychiatric symptoms over the subsequent 12 months, as compared with 4% in an unaffected village.…”

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Psychological and physical morbidity in the aftermath of a cyclone

1986

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SynopsisA Fijian community affected by a cyclone was compared with an unaffected but similar community. Two months after the cyclone both psychological and physical morbidity was 2–3 times greater in the affected community than in controls. By the third month morbidity had resolved to levels similar to those in the unaffected population. Brief, catastrophic stress without loss of life appears to provoke psychological and physical morbidity of relatively brief duration.

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“…The third score (CAT) was Cattell's H Scale, a 13-item subscale of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire that focuses on social shyness and inhibition (Cattell & Eber, 1956). The fourth score (COR) was the total score of the CorneU Index, a 100-item symptom checklist heavily represented by psychosomatic content (Welder et al, 1948). The fifth and sixth scores concern the patient's target objectives.…”

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confidence: 99%