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57 – © Australian Physiotherapy Association 2011 259Appraisal ClinimetricsGeneral Health Questionnaire – 28 (GHQ-28)DescriptionThe GHQ-28 was developed by Goldberg in 1978 (Goldberg 1978) and has since been translated into 38 languages. Developed as a screening tool to detect those likely to ...
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
There are some disadvantages to use of the GHQ-28 in physiotherapy practice. First, the questionnaire is not freely available and must be purchased. Second, there is the potential for confusion over the different scoring methods, and this has implications for interpretation of scores derived...
(0-0-1-1) and a 4-point Likert-type scale (0-1-2-3); the latter produces amore acceptable distribution of scores for parametric analysis(with less skew and kurtosis); Banks, Clegg, Jackson, Kemp,The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): Reliability,external validity and factor...
General Health Questionnaire(GHQ). Aimed at detecting minor and functional psychiatric disorders, the GHQ is commonly used both in community andprimary caresettings. It originally included 60 items, but shorter versions, such as the GHQ-28 (assessing somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dy...
内容提示: 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 ...
(measured with theGeneral Health Questionnaire(GHQ-28)) in whiplash patients within a week of injury that became elevated at 3months postinjury in association with restricted neck movement. Sterling et al.,6also using the GHQ-28, measured psychological responses towhiplash injuryand found that at...
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 Persian (Iran...
Psychological health, Saudi Arabia, General health, Exploratory (EFA) factor analysis, Al Kharj, General health questionnaire, GHQ-12Background The General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) is one of the most unique and extensively used self-report instruments for evaluating psychological disorders and...