Factor Analysis of Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaires and Personality Test Questionnaires

Mori, T.; Togawa, Katsumi

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“…33 Mortality among psychiatric outpatients and patients with functional disorders has been investigated earlier.3435 In brief the results show an excess mortality from "unnatural" causes related to several psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms among other neuroses and cases of alcohol or drug abuse. Sims, however, showed an association between neurosis and increased mortality from "natural" causes.…”

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Job demands, job decision latitude, job support, and social network factors as predictors of mortality in a Swedish pulp and paper company.

Astrand

Hanson

Isacsson

1989

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Three hundred and ninety one male employees aged 35-65 in a Swedish pulp and paper company were followed up for 22 years; 151 deaths were recorded by 31 December 1983. On the basis of data from 1961, indices for job decision latitude, job support, and other work related psychosocial factors were constructed as were five indices for non-work related social network factors. All indices were checked by life table analysis in respect of mortality. Job decision latitude and a combined index for job decision latitude and job support showed significant associations with mortality. These two indices were investigated by multivariate analysis with scale for evaluation of neuroticism and known somatic risk factors such as smoking, cholesterol, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Age, educational level, occupational status, physically heavy work, and general health state were also included in the multivariate analysis. Age, systolic blood pressure, the combined index for job decision latitude and job support, smoking, and neuroticism were shown to be independent predictors of mortality.Work related psychosocial factors have shown an association with mental symptoms, psychosomatic disorders, and cardiovascular morbidity in cross sectional studies." Case-control studies have also shown an association between psychological work demands and lack of influence over the working situation on the one hand and cardiovascular cerebrovascular or cardiovascular mortality on the other.'Prospective studies have shown that hectic and psychologically demanding work, low decision latitude, and combinations of these factors are predictors of mental strain and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.2"8In social epidemiology there is a growing interest in various aspects of social network and social support as determinants of health, including premature death."'5The theoretical basis for the action of work related psychosocial factors on health has its source in stress research dealing with principally adrenal hormones as mediators of ill health.' 1618 Karasek has hypothesised that the influence ofwork demands on health may be moderated by the degree of control the individual has over his work.2 This is called Accepted 18 April 1988 the job strain model. A combination of high work demands and low level of permitted discretion in the control ofones own work carries the highest risk for ill health.Johnson and Theorell have established the term isostrain to measure the combined exposure to psychological work demands, the level for work control, and the level for work related social support.3 The isostrain model was hypothesised to be the best predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and was shown to have the strongest cross sectional association with cardiovascular morbidity.The theory for social network and social support research is the "theory of general susceptibility," presented by Cassel in 1976'9 It emphasises a nonspecific influence of factors in the social environment on the resistance of man against different pathogen...

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Job demands, job decision latitude, job support, and social network factors as predictors of mortality in a Swedish pulp and paper company.

Astrand

Hanson

Isacsson

1989

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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A Study of Psychosocial Factors in the Psychosomatic Symptoms of Adolescents in Okinawa

Nakada

1992

Pediatrics International

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High school students (N = 902) in Okinawa were asked to participate in a questionnaire survey which was designed to investigate the psychosocial factors in the psychosomatic symptoms of adolescents. The questionnaire focused on mental distress, perception of school and home environment and psychosomatic symptoms. The Japanese Edition Cornell Medical Index‐Health Questionnaire (JCMI) for evaluating emotional instability and the New TK Diagnostic Test for Parent‐Child Relationship were also utilized. Distress in relationships with family or friends, finding little pleasure in school and/or home, showing emotional instability as diagnosed according to regions III and IV of JCMI, or showing strained parent‐child relationships according to the TK Test items were found to be closely associated with psychosomatic symptoms. In addition, students with human relations problems, especially family problems, tended to have a strained relationship with parents and tended to show autonomic hyperactivity represented by orthostatic dysregulation. Students with peer problems tended to have emotional instability and to find little pleasure in school; they had mental as well as urinary and bowel symptoms. The findings of this study suggest that distresses in family or peer relationships, emotional instability and a strained parent‐child relationship are important factors in the onset of psychosomatic symptoms in adolescents.

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Cornell Medical Index Score Observed among Japanese Nursing Students.

Fukahara¹,

Kodama²,

Chie³

et al. 1997

Kurume Med. J.

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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 (section A-L) and psychological health complains (section M-R) were 15.7 (SD=11.8) and 7.3 (SD=6.1), respectively. Two-way analysis of variances with multiple comparison of means revealed significant relationships between age and psychological health complaints and both physical and overall health complaints. The older nursing students reported more physical and overall health complaints than the youngest. The nursing students who reported more complaints about psychological health also reported significantly more physical and overall health complaints . A comparison of Fukamachi's and Brodman's criteria for classification of neurotic traits is discussed. Findings from this study support the hypothesis that psychological health is somewhat reacted to physical health.

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Factor Analysis of Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaires and Personality Test Questionnaires

Cited by 3 publications

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Job demands, job decision latitude, job support, and social network factors as predictors of mortality in a Swedish pulp and paper company.

Job demands, job decision latitude, job support, and social network factors as predictors of mortality in a Swedish pulp and paper company.

A Study of Psychosocial Factors in the Psychosomatic Symptoms of Adolescents in Okinawa

Cornell Medical Index Score Observed among Japanese Nursing Students.

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