General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): The effect of negative items in its factorial structure;Questionário de Saúde Geral (QSG-12): O efeito de itens negativos em sua estrutura fatorial

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 375-384

  Gouveia, Valdiney V ^a   de Lima, Tiago Jessé Souza ^a   Gouveia, Rildésia Silva Veloso ^b   Freires, Leogildo Alves ^a   Barbosa, Larisse Helena Gomes Macedo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE JOÃO PESSOA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mental Health; Questionnaires; Statistical Bias; Validity of Tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84857346260     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2012000200016     Document Type: Article

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