Transcription of The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12 ...
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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 reduced to30 (GHQ-30), 28 (GHQ-28; in Spanish population see Gili, Ferrer,Roca, & Bernardo, 2000), and 12 items (GHQ-12) (Goldberg &Williams, 1988).The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is themost extensively used screening instrument for common mentaldisorders, in addition to being a more General measure ofpsychiatric well-being.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the internal consistency, factor structure, and external validity of the GHQ-12 in the Spanish general adult population, using a Likert-type scoring. To assess external validity, we chose the Inventory of Situations and Responses of Anxiety-ISRA (Miguel-Tobal & Cano-Vindel, 2002) for several reasons: 1.
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