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] The latter used in different fields and generations.[4] Also, using GHQ was beneficial in high-tech systems personnel.[5]

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.[6]

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. PMID 424481.
  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. PMID 3961039.
  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. Assadi, SM; Nakhaei, MR; Najafi, F; Fazel, S (January 2007). "Mental health in three generations of Iranian medical students and doctors. A cross-sectional study". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 42 (1): 57–60. doi:10.1007/s00127-006-0130-7. PMID 17080322. S2CID 40701780.
  5. Arghami, Sh; Nasl Seraji, J.; Mohammad, K.; Zamani, G.; Farhangi, A.; van Vuuren, W. (2005). "Mental health in high-tech system" (PDF). Iranian Journal of Public Health: 31–37.
  6. "General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)". Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2015-08-15.


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