VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST

A short 6-item version of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-6) was evaluated for its validity of a sample of STD patients in the hands of a non-psychiatrist untrained in psychiatry in comparison to independent and detail psychiatric assessment. The GHQ-6 was found to have a moderate sensitivity of 5...

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Autores principales: Rao, K.N, Begum, Shamshad, Siddappa, K., Ravindra, K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776115
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author Rao, K.N
Begum, Shamshad
Siddappa, K.
Ravindra, K.
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description A short 6-item version of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-6) was evaluated for its validity of a sample of STD patients in the hands of a non-psychiatrist untrained in psychiatry in comparison to independent and detail psychiatric assessment. The GHQ-6 was found to have a moderate sensitivity of 55%, but high specificity rate of 87%.
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spelling pubmed-29810492011-07-20 VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST Rao, K.N Begum, Shamshad Siddappa, K. Ravindra, K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A short 6-item version of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-6) was evaluated for its validity of a sample of STD patients in the hands of a non-psychiatrist untrained in psychiatry in comparison to independent and detail psychiatric assessment. The GHQ-6 was found to have a moderate sensitivity of 55%, but high specificity rate of 87%. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2981049/ /pubmed/21776115 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Rao, K.N
Begum, Shamshad
Siddappa, K.
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VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title_full VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title_fullStr VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title_full_unstemmed VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title_short VALIDITY OF A 6-ITEM VERSION OF GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE (G.H.Q.) IN THE HANDS OF A NON - PSYCHIATRIST
title_sort validity of a 6-item version of general health questionnaire (g.h.q.) in the hands of a non - psychiatrist
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776115
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