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A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire
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SYNOPSIS: This study reports the factor structure of the symptoms comprising the General Health Questionnaire when it is completed in a primary care setting. A shorter, 28-item GHQ is proposed consisting of 4 subscales: somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression. Preliminary data concerning the validity of these scales are presented, and the performance of the whole 28-item questionnaire as a screening test is evaluated. The factor structure of the symptomatology is found to be very similar for 3 independent sets of data.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Goldberg, D. P., & Hillier, V. F.
- Venue
- Psychological Medicine
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1979-02
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 139-145
- ISSN
- 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8978
- OpenAlex
- W2168250407
- Cited by
- 5,459
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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