Reliability and validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) among urological patients: A Malaysian study

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 509-513

  Quek, Kia Fatt ^a   Low, Wah Yun ^a   Razack, Azad Hassan ^b   Loh, Chit Sin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cronbach's alpha; General Health Questionnaire; Internal consistency, intraclass correlation coefficient; Test retest reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0034796155     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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