Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : usefulness of five-item and three-item Mental Health Inventories to screen for depressive symptoms in the general population of Japan | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Usefulness of five-item and three-item Mental Health Inventories to screen for depressive symptoms in the general population of Japan Shin Yamazaki 1 Shunichi Fukuharat2 and Joseph Greent3 Address Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment Section National Institute for Environmental Studies Tsukuba Japan 2Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health Kyoto University Kyoto Japan and 3Office of International Academic Affairs Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Japan Email Shin Yamazaki - Shunichi Fukuhara - fukuhara@ Joseph Green - jgreen@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 08 August 2005 Received 02 June 2005 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005 3 48 doi 1477-7525-3- Accepted 08 August 2005 48 This article is available from http content 3 1 48 2005 Yamazaki et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background 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 symptoms in the general population of Japan. Methods From the population of Japan 4500 people 16 years old or older were selected by stratified-random sampling. The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey SF-36 which includes the MHI-5 and the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale ZSDS were included in a self-administered questionnaire. ZSDS scores of 48 and above were
