General Health Questionnaire

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a psychometric screening tool to identify common psychiatric conditions. [1] It has been translated and validated in at least two languages in addition to English, including Spanish[2] and Persian.[3]

General Health Questionnaire
Purposeused to identify common psychiatric conditions

The questionnaire comprises a number of questions, each with a four-point Likert scale for responses. There are versions with 12, 28, 30 and 60 questions. It is considered valid for use on adults and adolescents, but not children, and is available on purchase.[4]

References
  1. Goldberg, David; Hillier, Valerie (1979). "A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire". Psychological Medicine. Cambridge Univ Press. 9 (1): 139–145. doi:10.1017/s0033291700021644.
  2. Lobo, Antonio; Pérez-Echeverría, Maria; Artal, Jesus (1986). "Validity of the scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) in a Spanish population". Psychological Medicine. 16 (1): 135–140. doi:10.1017/s0033291700002579.
  3. Montazeri, Ali; Harirchi, Amir; Artal, Jesus; Shariati, Mohammad; Garmaroudi, Gholamreza; Ebadi, Mehdi; Fateh, Abolfazl (2003). "The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): translation and validation study of the Iranian version". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. BioMed Central Ltd. 1 (1): 66. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-1-66. PMC 280704. PMID 14614778.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2015-08-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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