The MHI-5 assesses symp- toms of depression and anxiety (nervousness, depressed affect) and positive aspects of mental health (feeling calm, happy) during the past four weeks. Respondents indicate the frequency of these symptoms and responses are summed and transformed to a normalised scale from ...
Another study assessed mental health scores among 7-year-olds, also using data from the MCS. They found that Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Black Caribbean children experienced significantly more internalizing problems than white children. Pakistani and Black Caribbean children displayed more, while Black ...
Irritability (8 items), somatic symptoms (6 items), and signs of insecurity (4 items) were identified as factors in the MHII; each of these factors measures a critical aspect of infants' mental health. The MHII's internal consistency and scale homogeneity were acceptable; its criterion-...
Comparison of the MOS short form-12 (SF12) health status questionnaire with the SF36 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS: The SF12 and SF36 physical and mental component summary scales (PCS and MCS) were compared for test retest reliability [intra-class correlation ... N,P,Hurst...
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), our results imply that the reform significantly reduced adolescents' self-rated mental health status. The overall effect on the Mental Component Summary Score (MCS) is about a quarter of a standard deviation. Examining MCS sub-...
RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Mental health affects future employment as job loss affects mental health: findings from a longitudinal population …
Methods Multilevel linear and logistic regressions were fitted on 30,214 participants in the UK Household Longitudinal Study with lagged PPTI and confounder measures at baseline and indicators of active travel and mental health (General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), SF-12 Mental Component Scale (MCS)...
(SPHERE-12), and anxiety, depression and somatisation diagnostic categories of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview - Auto; rates of disability, assessed by the 12-item Short-Form (SF-12) General Health Survey's mental (MCS) and physical component scales; GP ratings of patients' ...
Only two studies compared disease activity scores in patients with and without comorbid mental health disorders. Freire et al. found that DAS28 (3.2 vs 2.9 p < 0.05) and pain visual analogue scale (VAS) (4.1 vs 3.0 p < 0.01) were higher in patients with anxiety than those witho...
Limited empirical evidence is available regarding the uptake and effectiveness of school-based mental health and wellbeing programs implemented in Australi