The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey Japan

By Toshimasa Furukawa, N. Kawakami, Mari Saitoh, Y. Ono, Y. Nakane, Yosikazu Nakamura, H. Tachimori, N. Iwata, H. Uda, H. Nakane and 7 more. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Ronald C. Kessler
2. N. Sampson
3. Alan M. Zaslavsky
4. E. Bromet
5. M. Enoch
6. Katie A. McLaughlin
7. P. Thoits
8. Matthew K. Nock

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. N. Sampson
2. Alan M. Zaslavsky
3. Ronald C. Kessler

In Social Psychology

1. N. Sampson
2. Alan M. Zaslavsky
3. E. Bromet
4. J. Posada-villa
5. O. Gureje
6. N. Kawakami
7. M. Gruber
8. Ronald C. Kessler

Citations in the corpus

• Screening performance of K6/K10 and other screening instruments for mood and anxiety disorders in Japan (2011, methodology): “K6/K10 scales were translated into Japanese19 and the interview version was validated in the general population in Japan.19 The screening performance of K6/K10 scales in detecting 30-day DSM-IV mood and anxiety disorders was excellent with values as high as 0.94 for K6 and 0.94 for K10 in the areas ”
• Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population with the K6 screening scale: Results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative (2010, positive): “However, Furukawa and associates (Furukawa et al., 2008; Furukawa et al., 2003) have shown that this simple dichotomous scoring approach can be refined by using polychotomous rather than dichotomous scoring rules that collapse K6 scores into strata based on analysis of data in a clinical calibration”