OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to validate the Malay version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS-M) among a group of medical students in Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. METHODS 237 students participated in the study. They were given the Malay version of MSPSS, medical outcome study (MOS) social support survey, Malay version of General Health Questionn...

We have read with some surprise the response (1) to our paper titled " Psychological distress among students from five universities " (2). The criticism levelled at the paper is largely unfounded and is a gross misinterpretation of the basic statistics applied. The letter alleges that our Table 1 is misleading. The writers assume that the percentage in cell one of distressed males in the univer...

BACKGROUND The consultation satisfaction questionnaire and surgery satisfaction questionnaire, and the critical incident technique have been identified as examples of, respectively, quantitative and qualitative (interview) techniques with considerable theoretical merit regarding the measurement of patients' views in a general practice context. AIM This study set out to assess these techniques...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the association between self reported and externally assessed work characteristics and psychiatric disorder. DESIGN Analysis of questionnaire data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study, a cohort study of an employed population. SETTING Twenty civil service departments in London. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 6900 male and 3414 female civil servants...

OBJECTIVES To identify levels of psychological distress in accident and emergency (A&E) senior house officers (SHOs). METHODS Questionnaire survey given to SHOs at training sessions. MEASURES General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Brief COPE. RESULTS Over half of the 37 respondents (51%; 95% CI: 36% to 67%) scored over the threshold for psychological distress on the GHQ. This is consi...

We consider a Diamond-type model of endogenous growth in which there are three assets: fiat money, government bonds, and equity. Because of productivity shocks, the equity return is uncertain, and risk-averse investors require a positive equity premium. Typically, there exist two steady states, but only one of them turns out to be stable. Tight monetary policy is harmful for growth in the stabl...

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being. A consistent pattern across countries is that women report lower levels of mental well-being, as measured by the GHQ. This paper applies decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score. For 1994 most of the difference is ac...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the relationship between violence in the post-partum period and mothers' psychological distress. METHOD Three hundred and fifty two women responded to a questionnaire after the birth, at the Trieste Hospital (Italy), and 292 of them responded to a telephone interview 8 months later. Psychological distress was evaluated with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ); partner ...

The most straightforward way to analyze investment-sector productivity developments is to construct a two-sector model with a sector-specific productivity shock. An often used modeling shortcut accounts for such developments using a one-sector model with shocks to the efficiency of investment in a capital accumulation equation. This shortcut is theoretically justified when some stringent condit...

BACKGROUND Several studies have examined the prevalence and pattern of substance use among medical students in Nigeria. Few of these studies have specifically examined the relationship between the psychological distress and psychoactive substance use among these students. Yet, evidence world-wide suggests that substance use among medical students might be on the rise and may be related to the l...