A Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12
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A Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12
BACKGROUND The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12 was designed as a short questionnaire to assess psychiatric morbidity. Despite the fact that studies have suggested a number of competing multidimensional factor structures, it continues to be largely used as a unidimensional instrument. This may have an impact on the identification of psychiatric morbidity in target populations. The aim of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1477-7525
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-45