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

screening

Digital administration of The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) to collect structured patient inputs for validated score calculation and clinical follow-up.

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

Clinical intent

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).

Calculation

The customary type of scores used are a bimodel scale (0-0-1-1), this means that a score of 0 and 1 is recoded to a 0, 2 and 3 to a 1. The total score is thus 12.

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Form preview

Interactive preview of the questionnaire. Not for clinical use. Responses are not stored.

The 12-Item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) Questionnaire
Please complete this questionnaire. Your responses help your clinical team assess your symptoms and monitor progress over time.
Over the past few weeks... Have you been able to concentrate well on what you were doing? 
Over the past few weeks... Have your worries made you lose a lot of sleep? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you felt that you are playing a useful role in life? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you felt capable of making decisions? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you felt constantly overwhelmed and stressed? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you had the feeling that you cannot overcome your difficulties? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you been able to enjoy your normal daily activities? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you been able to adequately cope with your problems? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you felt unhappy or depressed? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you lost confidence in yourself? 
Over the past few weeks... Have you thought that you are a person worthless? 
Over the past few weeks... Do you feel reasonably happy considering all the circumstances?