The Brain Overwork Scale: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study on the Psychometric Properties of a New 10-Item Scale to Assess Mental Distress in Mongolia.

ABSTRACT: Identifying mental distress is a complex task, particularly when individuals experience physical symptoms. Traditional self-report questionnaires that detect psychiatric symptoms using emotional words may not work for these individuals. Consequently, there is a need for a screening tool that can identify both the physical and mental symptoms of mental distress in individuals without a clinical diagnosis. Our study aimed to develop and validate a scale that measures mental distress by measuring the extent of brain overwork, which can be extrapolated as the burden of mental distress. In this population-based cross-sectional study, we recruited a total of 739 adults aged 16-65 years from 64 sampling centers of a cohort in Mongolia to validate a 10-item self-report questionnaire. Internal cons

SUBMITTER: Lkhagvasuren B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10094685 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature