Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20.
SRQ-20
- What it measures
- Common mental disorders / non-psychotic psychiatric morbidity (depression, anxiety, somatic distress); general psychological-distress screen.
- Length and format
- 20 (SRQ-20; full SRQ has 25 items incl. psychotic/seizure items). yes/no (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Very widely translated for low- and middle-income settings; 30+ languages incl. ES, PT, FR, AR, SW, HI
- 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Beusenberg, M., & Orley, J. (1994). A User's Guide to the Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ). World Health Organization, WHO/MNH/PSF/94.8.
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