What is the General Health Questionnaire-12 assessing?: Dimensionality and psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire-12 in a large scale German population sample

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 406-413

  Romppel, Matthias ^a,b   Braehler, Elmar ^a   Roth, Marcus ^c   Glaesmer, Heide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIPZIG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 12; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SOCIAL PHOBIA INVENTORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84876408352     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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