Factor Analysis and Validation of the General Health Questionnaire in Women: A General Practice Survey
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (3) , 257-264
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.142.3.257
Abstract
As part of a survey of 1517 women aged 20-60 yr, a factor analysis and validation study of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was carried out. Although 3 clinically relevant factors could be isolated, their sensitivity was less than that of the total GHQ score, which was a good measure of current psychiatric disturbance in this community sample.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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