Usefulness of five-item and three-item Mental Health Inventories to screen for depressive symptoms in the general population of Japan

• Published in: Health and quality of life outcomes Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 48
• Main Authors: Yamazaki, Shin, Fukuhara, Shunichi, Green, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 08.08.2005; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Female; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Mass Screening - methods; Mental Status Schedule; Middle Aged; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Personality Inventory; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Quality of Life; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Factors; Self-Assessment; Surveys and Questionnaires; Japan

The five-question Mental Health Inventory (MHI-5) is a brief questionnaire that can be used to screen for depressive symptoms. Removing the 2 anxiety-related items from the MHI-5 yields the MHI-3. We assessed the performance of the Japanese versions of the MHI-5 and MHI-3 in detecting depressive sym...