Background: The 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is constructed on the basis of a principal components analysis of the GHQ-60 (28 items selected and grouped under four subscales). When used on a Spanish population, a translation of the GHQ-28 developed for an English population logically yields worse predictive values. Methods: Data from a community study conducted in a town near Madr...

The purpose of the study was to determine such cut-off points in the scores of General Health Questionnaires (GHQ-12 and GHQ-28) that allow for optimal identification of people with mental health disorders in the Polish working population attending primary health care settings. The groups under the study covered 419 and 392 patients for GHQ-12, and GHQ-28, respectively. In the GHQ-12 group, 90 ...

The prevalence of depression among the general population has been estimated as up to 50% and even higher among asthmatics. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the prevalence of depressed mood among asthma patients (n = 280) attending a pulmonary clinic in Tehran and compare it with measures of severity of asthma and of health and well-being. The prevalence of depression sympt...

ôbjective: psychological status of university students has an important role in their academic performance. the present study was planned to evaluate the psychological view of new entrance students of shaheed sadoughi üniversity of medical sciences. methods: general health questionnaire (ghq-28) was used to collect data from 1689 students who visited the âdvisory and guidance çenter of the üniv...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the usefulness of the 28-item Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) in identifying psychosocial problems, and to determine how the questionnaire scores are related to stressful life events (SLE), use of health services, and individual variables (age, sex, employment status, socioeconomic group, and educational level). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Alman...