The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a self- administered screening questionnaire, designed for use in consulting settings aimed at detecting individuals with a diagnosable psychiatric disorder (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979). In its original version, it had 60 items (GHQ-60), which were reduced ...
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General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Aimed at detecting minor and functional psychiatric disorders, the GHQ is commonly used both in community and primary care settings. It originally included 60 items, but shorter versions, such as the GHQ-28 (assessing somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, socia...
CHAPTER 66: GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (GHQ-12) Description The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) by Goldberg (1976) is a self-administered questionnaire designed to detect persons that are symptomatic or at risk of developing the common, non-psych
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Background The objective of this study was to translate and to test the reliability and validity of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in Iran. Methods Using a standard 'forward-backward' translation procedure, the English language version of the questionnaire was translated into Pe...
The aim of this paper was to investigate the screening properties of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Symptom Check-List (SCL-90-R) in a primary care setting in Germany. METHOD: A randomly selected sample (n = 408) of adult outpatients from 18 primary care offices in ...
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a measure of current mental health and since its development by Goldberg in the 1970s it has been extensively used in different settings and different cultures [1–5]. The questionnaire was originally developed as a 60-item instrument but at present a...
This study confirms the validity of a Spanish version of the General Health Questionnaire in its scaled 28-item version. The screening instrument was tested on a sample of 100 patients attending an internal medicine out-patient clinic, who were examined independently by psychiatrists standardized in ...
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a self-administered screening questionnaire, designed for use inconsulting settings aimed at detecting individuals with adiagnosable psychiatric disorder (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979). In itsoriginal version, it had 60 items (GHQ-60), which were reduced to...