コーネル医学指数の簡易改良とその応用 : 第6報 交替勤務者健康診断への応用

An investigation with our simplified Cornell Medical Index (CMI), which was previously reported, jointly with Awazi-Okabe's thinking-version test and several kinds of clinical examinations, was carried out on 203 male shift workers. Their health conditions were estimated by the number of items answered "yes" on CMI and by the nature of each item related to the somatic system. The roentgenological sign and the result of the test of gastric juice were used for the close examination of the gastric function, and according to the results of these examinations, it was explained that their somatic complaints were based on clinical signs. And in so far as they had some complaint without any clinical sign, some abnormality was found on the close examination. These observations have made certain that our simplified CMI was one of useful methods in the practice of screening at periodic health examinations. An inverse correlation was found between the number of items answered "yes" on CMI and the score of thinking-version scale. It was shown that the workers characterized with introversion had much complaints.