Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

• Published in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research Vol. 19; no. S1; pp. 4 - 22
• Main Authors: Kessler, Ronald C., Green, Jennifer Greif, Gruber, Michael J., Sampson, Nancy A., Bromet, Evelyn, Cuitan, Marius, Furukawa, Toshi A., Gureje, Oye, Hinkov, Hristo, Hu, Chi-Yi, Lara, Carmen, Lee, Sing, Mneimneh, Zeina, Myer, Landon, Oakley-Browne, Mark, Posada-Villa, Jose, Sagar, Rajesh, Viana, Maria Carmen, Zaslavsky, Alan M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.06.2010
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Aged; Community Health Planning; Data processing; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health Surveys; Humans; International Cooperation; K6 screening scale; Male; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Middle Aged; psychiatric epidemiology; Psychometrics - methods; Regression analysis; Reproducibility of Results; Scaling; serious mental illness (SMI); Statistics; Surveys and Questionnaires; World Health Organization; Young Adult

Data are reported on the background and performance of the K6 screening scale for serious mental illness (SMI) in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) surveys. The K6 is a six‐item scale developed to provide a brief valid screen for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...