The GHQ-12
The factor structure of the GHQ-12: the interaction between item phrasing, variance and levels of distress
... Hankins’ [19] has suggested that negatively worded items give rise to a response bias. Our study extends these findings by demonstrating that the response bias is potentially moderated by levels of distress. Studies ...
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Evaluating cutpoints for the MHI 5 and MCS using the GHQ 12: a comparison of five different methods
... The relationship between the optimum cutpoint and the population case prevalence for the five optimisation methods and for both the MHI-5 and the MCS was inves- tigated in Figure 4 (the minimax method was excluded since ...
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Measuring mental health of the Dutch population: a comparison of the GHQ-12 and the MHI-5
... the GHQ-12 and MHI-5 suggests that both instruments measure different aspects of mental ...the GHQ and MHI ...the GHQ in detecting affective ...the GHQ-12, and this may have ...
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Predicting Postnatal Psychological Distress in a Zambian Cohort: Relationship between the EPDS and the GHQ 12
... the GHQ-12 while lo- gistic regression analysis was carried out in order to predict postnatal psy- chological ...the GHQ-12 and EPDS scores (r = ...and GHQ-12 and that the EPDS ...
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Mental Health and Reporting Bias: Analysis of the GHQ - 12
... the GHQ − 12 measure, and speci…cally its sub-components, and how inaccurate reporting can adversely a¤ect the distribution of the ...composite GHQ − 12 score to take such mis-reporting ...
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Social participation and self rated psychological health
... the GHQ-12 items with the exception of believe in self-worth (ghqk), concentration (ghqa) and loss of sleep ...other GHQ-12 items seem in line with Giordano and Lindström (2011) and Lindström ...
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A Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12
... summed GHQ - 12 scores [14,15,19], yet the factor structure has important implications on the reli- ability and validity of the instrument, as well as on inter- preting scores [20] and how the ...
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Measuring the effects of socioeconomic factors on mental health among migrants in urban China: a multiple indicators multiple causes model
... There are six stages to the analysis. The first stage used the descriptive statistics to analyze socioeconomic fac- tors. In the second stage, tetrachoric correlations were estimated between the items among ...
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Effort, reward and self-reported mental health: a simulation study on negative affectivity bias
... the GHQ-12 score in the reference population and an explained variance of 6%, according to the results of our simulation study, these parameters would be interpreted in the following manner: for NA to be ...
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Problem Management Plus (PM+) in the management of common mental disorders in a specialized mental healthcare facility in Pakistan; study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... the GHQ-12 and WHO- DAS. Participants meeting inclusion criteria (GHQ- 12 >2 and WHODAS >16) will be randomised using computerized software on a 1:1 basis by an independ- ent researcher ...
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Self-reported domain-specific and accelerometer-based physical activity and sedentary behaviour in relation to psychological distress among an urban Asian population
... past 12 months and ...and GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire-12) [8], which have been translated into different languages and extensively validated in general and clinical populations [9 – ...
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An evaluation of computerized adaptive testing for general psychological distress: combining GHQ-12 and Affectometer-2 in an item bank for public mental health research
... those 12 items with the highest information function for each specific distress level were selected and their joint information I( θ ) was converted into the conditional measurement error ( 1= p ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi I ð Þ θ ...
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A longitudinal study of psychological stress among undergraduate dental students at the University of Jordan
... [20]. GHQ-12 is a 12 item questionnaire that asks the respondent to indicate on a Likert-type scale the way they have been feeling over the last four weeks in response to certain ...the ...
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Psychological approach to successful ageing predicts future quality of life in older adults
... the GHQ-12 [18], the psycho- social variables above were measured with validated scales of social support [19], perceived neighbourhood environment [20], self-efficacy [21], optimism-pessimism [22], and ...
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Reliability and validity of general health questionnaire (GHQ 12) for male tannery workers: a study carried out in Kanpur, India
... Confirmatory factor analysis was used to compare three-factor structures for the GHQ-12 scale. This study has estimated the indices RMSEA, AIC, BIC, CFI, TLI, and SRMR. The study has used a unidimensional ...
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Case finding for mental distress in primary health care: An evaluation of the performance of a five item screening instrument
... In all 400 participants, visiting the primary care (PHC) centers for various medical reasons, completed the SRQ-20 and the GHQ-12 and also completed the clinical interview (using the DSM-IV) administered by ...
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Stress and Coping Strategies among University Freshmen in Hong Kong: Validation of the Coping Strategy Indicator
... The GHQ-12 is the most extensively used, self-administered screening in- strument for common mental disorders, in addition to being a more general measure of psychiatric ...the 12 questions (for ...
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Validation of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 12) adapted to a work related context
... The GHQ-12 is a well-known instrument for measur- ing minor psychological distress and has been translated into a variety of ...the GHQ-12 is not a tool for indicating a specific diagnosis ...
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Factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS), and the relationship between them: a study from France
... The standard "forward-backward" procedure was applied to translate the questionnaires (the GHQ-12 and the VS) from English into French. Two bilinguals translated the original scales into French. Two ...
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The factor structure of the 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) in young Chinese civil servants
... the GHQ-12 have proven acceptable, ...the GHQ-12, it has been proven that the Chinese ver- sion is reliable and valid [16, ...the GHQ-12 to university stu- dents [16], and the ...
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