General Health Questionnaire-28.

GHQ-28

What it measures

Common mental distress across 4 subscales (Somatic symptoms, Anxiety/insomnia, Social dysfunction, Severe depression) + total score

Length and format

28 (4 x 7-item subscales). 4-pt response; GHQ (0-0-1-1) or Likert (0-1-2-3) scoring (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many of the 38 GHQ langs incl. ES, FR, DE, AR, ZH, PT, IT

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Goldberg, D.P., & Hillier, V.F. (1979). A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychological Medicine, 9(1), 139-145.