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KMID : 0377619770320040461
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1977 Volume.32 No. 4 p.461 ~ p.467
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The Screening. of Mentally Unhealthy Students of High School on a Mass Scale by using Cornell Medical Index
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Abstract
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The authors applied CMI to 939 high school students consisting of 466 males, and 473 females that were randomly selected both from 4 schools locating-in Daegu City as a preliminary approach to screening of mental unhealthy students on a mass scale that aims to be applied to school population including the middle school, the high school and the college students and obtained statistical data from results on CMI scores of the total subjects.
On the basis of distribution of total affirmative responses of the total subjects a stratified group of 108 subjects consisting of 54 males and 54 females was chosen for further study and abnormal trait group that were 117 subjects consisting of 68 males and 49 females was cho3 m through "Taylor´s Manifest Anxiety (TMA)" and "Sentence Completion Test(SCI´)". Subsequent statistical analysis of both data obtained in an attempt to study the validity of this CMI instrument in detecting mental unhealthy in this selected students.
The conclusions are as follows:
1) The mean number of CMI scores for the total 939 subjects was 21.73. Any significant difference was not observed between the mean number of responses for male students and that for female- students.
2) In the stratified group who were a random sampling the mean CMI. score was 22.00 and in the abnormal trait-group who were chosen through TIM & -SCT the mean CMI score was 43.26. Thus statistically significant differences in responses to CMI could be observed in both groups.
3) This seems to confirm other reports that CMI has been found useful in
detecting mental unhealthy on a mass scale and may suggest the validity of CMI to segregate mentally disturbed persons on a mass scale from such isolated population as the high school. Furthermore, this conclusions may suggest the role of nurses in community mental health philosophy that was acting roles about primary prevention in community psychiatry.
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