Table 1.

Mental Disorders Diagnosable using the SCL-90-R (Excluding “Other”)

Mental Disorder	Definition
Anxiety (ANX):	A disorder that causes feelings of apprehension, dread, terror, and panic.
Depression (DEP):	A disorder that leads to painful symptoms that negatively affect daily activities such as eating and sleeping.
Hostility (HOS):	A disorder wherein patients have thoughts, feelings, and actions that cause a negative state of anger (e.g., aggression, rage).
Interpersonal sensitivity (INT):	A disorder wherein patients feel inadequate and inferior when they compare themselves to others (e.g., feelings of self-deprecation, uneasiness).
Obsessive-compulsive (OC):	A disorder in which patients have repeated unwanted thoughts or desire to do something continually and urgently.
Paranoid ideation (PAR):	A disorder wherein patients have a mode of thinking featuring hostility, suspiciousness, grandiosity, or fear of loss of autonomy.
Phobic anxiety (PHOB):	A disorder wherein patients have a persistent feeling of fear of a specific person, place, object, or situation that becomes irrational.
Psychoticism (PSY):	A disorder epitomized by aggressiveness and interpersonal hostility (e.g., lack of empathy).
Somatization (SOM):	A disorder caused by bodily perceptions and complaints related to cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and other body systems.
Additional items (ADI)	Includes items such as sleep and appetite problems and feelings of guilt.