The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 1 November 1989
T.G. Sriram, C. R. Chandrashekar, Mohan Isaac, V. Shanmugham
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The English version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and a translated Indian version were administered to a sample of hundred bilingual college students and both showed adequate internal consistency and reliability.
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The English version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and a translated Indian version were administered to a sample of hundred bilingual college students. Both the versions of the GHQ showed adequate internal consistency and reliability. There was a high concordance between the two versions on high scorers and low scorers. These results were also applicable to GHQ-30 and GHQ-12. Item analysis revealed certain differences between the two versions attributable to semantic and technical problems. Validity of the GHQ in the Indian setting are discussed.
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