VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION

On administering the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in English, Gujarati and Marathi, to 500 non-acutely ill adult patients selected randomly from a General Hospital Out-patient Department, it was found that 57% scored high (12 and above), indicating the possibility of psychiatric morbidity in t...

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Autores principales: Bagadia, V.N., Ayyar, K.S., Lakdawala, P.D., Susainathan, U., Pradhan, P.V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1985
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927123
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author Bagadia, V.N.
Ayyar, K.S.
Lakdawala, P.D.
Susainathan, U.
Pradhan, P.V.
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description On administering the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in English, Gujarati and Marathi, to 500 non-acutely ill adult patients selected randomly from a General Hospital Out-patient Department, it was found that 57% scored high (12 and above), indicating the possibility of psychiatric morbidity in this group. On subjecting 50 of these patients to blind psychiatric evaluation a misclassification rate of 30% was observed with respect to the G. H. Q. 96% of the psychiatrically ill scored high on GHQ, 37% of those scoring high on G. H. Q. were psychiatrically normal. If this misclassification rate is lowered by suitable modifications such as reducing items pertaining to Group A of the G. H. Q., then this test will be very useful as a simple tool to detect psychiatric morbidity.
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spelling pubmed-30107122011-09-16 VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION Bagadia, V.N. Ayyar, K.S. Lakdawala, P.D. Susainathan, U. Pradhan, P.V. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article On administering the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in English, Gujarati and Marathi, to 500 non-acutely ill adult patients selected randomly from a General Hospital Out-patient Department, it was found that 57% scored high (12 and above), indicating the possibility of psychiatric morbidity in this group. On subjecting 50 of these patients to blind psychiatric evaluation a misclassification rate of 30% was observed with respect to the G. H. Q. 96% of the psychiatrically ill scored high on GHQ, 37% of those scoring high on G. H. Q. were psychiatrically normal. If this misclassification rate is lowered by suitable modifications such as reducing items pertaining to Group A of the G. H. Q., then this test will be very useful as a simple tool to detect psychiatric morbidity. Medknow Publications 1985 /pmc/articles/PMC3010712/ /pubmed/21927123 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.
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Bagadia, V.N.
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Lakdawala, P.D.
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Pradhan, P.V.
VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title_full VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title_fullStr VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title_full_unstemmed VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title_short VALUE OF THE GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE IN DETECTING PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENT POPULATION
title_sort value of the general health questionnaire in detecting psychiatric morbidity in a general hospital out-patient population
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