The cornell medical index—health questionnaire. III. The evaluation of emotional disturbances

The cornell medical index as an epidemiological tool.

“…The greater the degree of emotional disturbance in a group, the higher this "total score" tends to be. 4 Other studies support the value of .. a few neurotic patients, however, score below 16. "2s A relationship was found, also, with poor marital adjustment, especially in women.…”

“…An early report stated that the total score was a better discriminator between "normal" and "neurotic" groups than various other tallies derived from the CMI. 4 Other scores have, however, been used. One such is the M-R score; that is, the number of positive responses to the 51 questions in those sections of the CMI which deal with mood and feeling patterns.…”

Psychological Adjustment Following Open-Heart Surgery

“…The Cornell Medical Index is a 195-item questionnaire devoted to various physical and emotional symptoms (see Brodman, et aL, 1952Brodman, et aL, , 1953. The format employs the traditional "review of systems" medical history approach, i. e. , eyes and ears, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, digestive tract, musculoskeletal system, etc.…”

“…Using an independently judged group of psychogenic post-operative "invalids, " the authors were only able to predict with 60% to 65% accuracy, using the critical score of 30 or more positive replies sug gested by Brodman, et al (1952), and others. They concluded that the usefulness of the CMI was limited in predicting psychogenic post operative invalidism.…”

St. Louis Encephalitis Sequelae and Accidents

“…In the same investigation, 3.4 percent of the pedestrians involved in all mishaps and 7.7 percent of those involved in fatal accidents had such physical impairments. Among 355 persons admitted to a hospital after suffering accidental trauma, Tannenbaum could find concomitant disease to be a causally related agent in only 8 Special flow-through tanks were used to determine how rapidly shellfish accumulate disease organisms in surrounding polluted water and how they are able to purge themselves in ultraviolet-irradiated sea water. After 3 hours' exposure in the contaminated water, all oyster samples collected had a virus level at least 10 times that of surrounding sea water.…”