1991
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199102000-00008
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Performance of a Five-Item Mental Health Screening Test

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“…Higher scores on the MHI-5 indicate better mental health. The MHI-5 has demonstrated excellent reliability (alpha 0.91-0.94) and validity in general populations (Berwick et al, 1991) as well as those with HIV infection (Berwick et al, 1991;Holmes, 1998;Revicki, Sorensen, & Wu, 1998). In the present study, the Cronbach's alpha for the MHI-5 was 0.89.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 47%
“…Higher scores on the MHI-5 indicate better mental health. The MHI-5 has demonstrated excellent reliability (alpha 0.91-0.94) and validity in general populations (Berwick et al, 1991) as well as those with HIV infection (Berwick et al, 1991;Holmes, 1998;Revicki, Sorensen, & Wu, 1998). In the present study, the Cronbach's alpha for the MHI-5 was 0.89.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 47%
“…In addition to the continuous specification, we used a cutoff of 30 or greater as representing a high degree of pain catastrophizing [15,23,30]. The fiveitem Mental Health Index-5 (MHI-5) [3,25] was used as a measure of anxiety and depressive feelings. The questions are summed and scaled from 0 to 100 using a linear transformation.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The questions are summed and scaled from 0 to 100 using a linear transformation. We examined the score as a continuous variable and as a dichotomous variable with lower scores (\ 68) indicative of worse mental health [3,25].…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 5-item Mental Health Inventory (Berwick et al, 1991), a component of the SF-36 Health Survey (Ware, 1993), has been validated as a screening tool against the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Potentially it offered a briefer alternative to the HADS.…”
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confidence: 99%