The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire Clinical Workflow

Introduction

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a selfadministered screening questionnaire, designed for use in consulting settings aimed at detecting individuals with a diagnosable psychiatric disorder (Goldberg & Hillier, 1979). In its original version, it had 60 items (GHQ-60), which were reduced to 30 (GHQ-30), 28 (GHQ-28; in Spanish population see Gili, Ferrer, Roca, & Bernardo, 2000), and 12 items (GHQ-12) (Goldberg & Williams, 1988)

The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is the most extensively used screening instrument for common mental disorders, in addition to being a more general measure of psychiatric well-being. Its brevity makes it attractive for use in busy clinical settings, as well in settings in which patients need help to complete the questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 1997); its psychometric properties have been studied in various countries (Werneke, Goldberg, Yalcin, & Üstün, 2000) and with various types of population, for example, elderly people (Costa, Barreto, Uchoa, Firma, Lima-Costa, & Prince, 2006), and urological patients (Quek, Low, Razack, & Loh, 2001).

The The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire flow contains the The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) questionnaire and associated calculation. After form submission, the The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire calculation is executed automatically. It's easy to extend this flow with conditional logic based on the interpretation of the The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire calculation.

The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) questionnaire

Questions and Scoring

The GHQ-12 consists of 12 questions that are scored on a Likert scoring scale from [0, 3].