FACTOR ANALYSIS OF CORNELL MEDICAL INDEX AND MEDICAL DATA INDEX

The Cornell medical index in disability evaluation.

The evaluation of persons seeking financial support because of disability due to physical or emotional illness is often difficult. Although definite guidelines have been established to assist in the determination of the degree of impairment from various diseases (Social Security Regulations, 1968) and orthopaedic abnormalities (Committee on Medical Rating of Physical Impairment, 1958), little h...

Factors affecting Cornell Medical Index scores of married couples.

Cornell Medical Index response as a predictor of mortality.

The medical significance of self-reported symptoms and self-perception of health status has been incompletely studied to date. In most survey studies, self-reported symptoms of medical status are treated as surrogates for the more objective evidence of medical diagnosis or illness behaviour recorded in the files of physicians' offices, hospitals, and insurance programmes. Interview or questionn...

Cornell Medical Index score observed among Japanese nursing students.

Purpose of this study was to survey subjective health problems occurring among Japanese nursing students. Data collected with the self-administered Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire Japanese version (JCMI) from 102 Japanese first year nursing students were analyzed. The total CMI score (section A-R) ranged from 2-108 with an average of 23.1 (SD = 15.9). The mean CMI for physical (secti...

Cross-cultural analysis of selected emotional questions from the Cornell Medical Index.

When considering the problems of the crosscultural applicability ofmental health questionnaires, the influence of cultural factors on the results is of central importance. Zola (1966) has suggested that there are at least two ways in which symptoms usually defined as indicating illness in one population may be ignored in others. First, the estimate of the prevalence of a condition may be mislea...