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General Health Questionnaire-60.

GHQ-60

What it measures
Common (non-psychotic) psychiatric distress; single total score
Length and format
60 items. 4-pt response; GHQ or Likert scoring (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Subset of the 38 GHQ langs; less commonly translated than 12/28 due to length
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. (1972). The Detection of Psychiatric Illness by Questionnaire. Maudsley Monograph No. 21. Oxford University Press.

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