General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)

[ Distributed by Mapi Research Trust ]

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 for intended use:
Adult
Characteristics
  Type of instrument:
Signs and symptoms

  Administration mode:
Self-administered

  Number of items:
GHQ-12: 12, GHQ-28:28, GHQ-30: 30, GHQ-60: 60

  Existence of database:
No

  Recall/Observation period:
Over the past few weeks
 
Language(s)
  Original language:
English for the UK

  List of existing translations:
The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.

This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors

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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


Note: The author has selected MAPI Institute as exclusive linguistic validation company to ensure the production of harmonized and consistent language versions.
For additional information on available translations of this instrument, or for a project involving new languages, please contact our Information Unit at contact@mapi-trust.org
 


Last update: November 2011
Last update in collaboration with the author: April 2008


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