Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing pandemic and life-threatening highly infectious outbreak. The people of Bangladesh are at high risk COVID-19 have already experienced various socio-economic, Physical health, psychological consequences. Particularly, mental health problems dominantly reported in the literature should be controlled. main objective this epidemiological study...

TO THE EDITOR: We read the article by Tse et al. 1 with interest , which showed the usefulness of 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a reliable screening tool for psychiatric disorders in the patients with functional dyspepsia. Interesting studies were recently published showed anxiety to be linked to functional dyspepsia and especially postprandial distress syndrome, but not epig...

Introduction: The multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) model provides an ideal foundation for assessing the psychological properties of a questionnaire designed with structure. This study aimed to present first use MIRT models investigate psychometric general health (GHQ-12) in parents school-aged children.
 Methods: A total 1104 school children-aged completed Persian version GHQ-1...

El objetivo de esta revisión es describir las características psicométricas versiones en español instrumentos utilizados la detección trastornos mentales comunes, sobre base una búsqueda sistemática PubMed y Google Académico. Se identificaron los siguientes con información pertinente: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12 GHQ-28), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Escala Salud Person...

Objective To quantify psychological distress experienced by emergency, anaesthetic and intensive care doctors during the acceleration phase of COVID-19 in UK Ireland. Methods Initial cross-sectional electronic survey distributed first pandemic wave Ireland (UK: 18 March 2020–26 2020 Ireland: 25 2020–2 April 2020). Surveys were via established specialty research networks, within a three-part lon...

The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12) is a widely used screening instrument. Oneand two-factor structures have been identified in some countries. In Brazil, the best factor structure is still unclear. This study aimed at knowing its factorial validity and reliability, and testing the one-factor and two-factor models. The participants were 7,512 Brazilian physicians. They answered the...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was (1) to explore in detail the working load of teachers, (2) to analyse the extent of negative or threatening school-related events teachers are confronted with, and (3) to evaluate mental health strain by applying the general health questionnaire (GHQ). METHODS A sample of 949 teachers in 10 grammar schools (German: Gymnasien) and 79 secondary modern school...