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General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)

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	Author(s)
Goldberg David

Purpose

Pathology:

Psychiatry/psychology

Disease:

Generic for psychiatry/psychology

Objective:

Screening instrument to detect psychiatric disorders in community settings and non-psychiatric clinical settings, such as primary care or general practice

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Signs and symptoms

Mode of administration:

Self-administered

Number of items:

GHQ-12: 12, GHQ-28:28, GHQ-30: 30, GHQ-60: 60

Existence of database:

Time recall:

Over the past few weeks

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the UK

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

GHQ-12:

Arabic	German for Austria*	Nepalese	Tagalog
Bahasa for Indonesia	German for Switzerland*	Portuguese	Thai
Cantonese	Greek	Punjabi	Turkish
Dutch for Belgium*	Gujarati	Russian	Urdu
Finnish*	Hindi	Serbo-Croatian	Welsh
French	Hungarian	Sorani
French for Belgium*	Italian	Swedish
German	Mandarin	Swedish for Finland*

GHQ-28:

Albanian	German	Nepalese	Sorani
Arabic	Greek	Punjabi	Turkish
Cantonese	Gujarati	Russian	Urdu
French	Mandarin	Serbian

GHQ-30:

Arabic	French	Punjabi	Urdu
Bengali

GHQ-60:
Cantonese, Mandarin

* translations performed by the Mapi Institute

Last update: August 2009
Last update in collaboration with the author: April 2008

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