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The General Health Questionnaire: reliability and validity for Australian youth
H R Winefield1, R D Goldney, A H Winefield
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) results are given for a large (N = 1013) sample of South Australian young people (average age 19.6 years), to compare the usefulness of the 12-, 28-, and 30-item forms of the GHQ. Internal reliabilities are generally adequate and the Likert scoring method produces significant correlations with psychological measures such as self-esteem. The case-prevalence rate using the binary scoring method was comparable with other studies, but misclassification rates were unacceptably high when DSM-III Axis I diagnosis was used as the criterion for the presence of any psychiatric disorder.