The reliability of the twelve-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) under realistic assumptions
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The reliability of the twelve-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) under realistic assumptions
BACKGROUND The twelve-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) was developed to screen for non-specific psychiatric morbidity. It has been widely validated and found to be reliable. These validation studies have assumed that the GHQ-12 is one-dimensional and free of response bias, but recent evidence suggests that neither of these assumptions may be correct, threatening its utility as a scree...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-355