CMI에 依한 高校生의 精神健康診斷에 關한硏究

THE SCREENING OF MENTALLY UNHEALHY STUDENTS OF HIGH SCHOOL ON A MASS SCALE BY USING CMI

As a preliminary approach to screening of mental disturbance on a mass scale that aims to be applied to school population including the middle school, the high school and the college students, the authors applied CMI to 338 high school students consisting of 160 males and 178 females that were randomly selected both from schools locating in Pusan City and from those in rural areas outside of the city, 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 sample of 40 subjects was chosen for further study which consisted of psychiatric evaluation through individual interview and subsequent statistical analysis of data obtained in an attempt to study the validity of this instrument in detecting mental disturbances in this selected adolescent population. The conclusions are as follows ： 1. The mean number of CMI scores for the total 338 subjects was 29.10, Any significant difference was not observed between the mean number of responses for male students and that for female students. 2. There was also not any significant difference between the mean CMI score for the rural group and that for the urban group. 3. In the chosen sample of 40 subjects who were given psychiatric evaluation the mean CM I score of the normal group was 25. 76 and the abnormal 60.73. Thus statistically significant differences in responses to CMI could be observed in the normal and abnormal groups. This seems to confirm other reports that CM I has been found useful in detecting mental disturbances 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. 4. It was observed in the 40 psychiatrically evaluated subjects that in comparison with the individual responses to items of C.I.J. and M —R of the normal group those of the abnormal group revealed a tendency to increase. This may, above all, lead us to suggest that in many cases of mental disturbance their psychiatric problems tend to be so treated that they are channeled out through somatic complaints, especially through those of autonomic visceral innervation.