Examining the content validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Functioning for Mental Illness-Subjective Version (CAMI-S) with reference to the framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF).

Aim: To support the achievement of life goals and social participation of persons with mental illness, based on the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), we generated items, identified domains, and examined the content validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Functioning for Mental Illness-Subjective Version (CAMI-S). The purpose was to assess patients' strengths and weaknesses by incorporating the patient and public involvement perspective.

Methods: Focus group interviews on the items to be included were conducted with Group A.

Relationships Among Pay-for-Performance, Work Stressors, and Depression in Sales Workers: A Structural Equation Model Analysis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether pay-for-performance (PFP) affects depression via work stressors.

Methods: This study used data from self-administered questionnaires obtained from 1160 sales workers, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (covariance structure analysis). Models included "long hour labor condition (LHLC)," which consisted of the number of working hours, hours worked per month, service overtime, and increase or decrease in working hours; seven work stressors; and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale.

Relationship between long working hours and depression: a 3-year longitudinal study of clerical workers.

Objective: To clarify how long working hours affect the likelihood of current and future depression.

Methods: Using data from four repeated measurements collected from 218 clerical workers, four models associating work-related factors to the depressive mood scale were established. The final model was constructed after comparing and testing the goodness-of-fit index using structural equation modeling.

[Social life improvement by social skills training (SST)--intervention with a view to neurocognitive function impairment].

Neurocognitive function impairment attracts much attention as an important factor affecting the level of social functioning in patients with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia. It forms the basis of learning disability and thus poses a major threat to psychosocial intervention. In this report, we classify 13 intervention methods corresponding to specific cognitive disorders.

Relationship between long working hours and depression in two working populations: a structural equation model approach.

Objectives: To test the hypothesis that relationship reported between long working hours and depression was inconsistent in previous studies because job demand was treated as a confounder.

Methods: Structural equation modeling was used to construct five models, using work-related factors and depressive mood scale obtained from 218 clerical workers, to test for goodness of fit and was externally validated with data obtained from 1160 sales workers. Multiple logistic regression analysis was also performed.

Symptom dimensions and needs of care among patients with schizophrenia in hospital and the community.

The purpose of the present paper was to examine the psychiatric symptom dimensions related to needs of care among patients with schizophrenia in hospital and in the community. Subjects were 217 patients with F2 ICD-10 diagnoses. Hospital patients included 102 inpatients (47.