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© 1977 Oxford University Press

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Two Shortened Versions of the Cornell Medical Index—A New Test of Their Validity

I LEVAV1,, A ARNON2 and A PORTNOY3

1Department of Social Medicine, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School and Hadassah University Hospital Jerusalam Israel
2Rural Health Centre Nehora, Lachich, Israel
3Department of Education (Psychology), The Hebrew Univer shy Jerusslem, Israel

Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. I Levav

Two shortened versions of the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) were tested for concurrent validity using two reference groups. Sensitivity, specificity and relative liability were computed and found to be of relatively low value. The usefulness of the questionnaires for screening the emotionally disturbed was found to be affected by respondents soclodemographic characteristics such as age and sex and, in particular, educational level and ethnicity.

Received 17 January 1977


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