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

C. Kessler, Ronald; Green, Jennifer; J. Gruber, Michael; A. Sampson, Nancy; J. Bromet, Evelyn; Cuitan, Marius; A. Furukawa, Toshi; Gureje, Oye; Hinkov, Hristo; Hu, Chi‐Yi; Lara, Carmen; Lee, Sing; Mneimneh, Zeina; Myer, Landon; Oakley‐Browne, Mark; Posada‐Villa, José; Sagar, Rajesh; Carmen Viana, María; M. Zaslavsky, Alan

doi:10.1002/mpr.310

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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 • May 31, 2010

Authors:

Ronald C. Kessler

Jennifer Green

Michael J. Gruber

Abstract

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...

Subject

Mental illness

Mental health

Psychiatry

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