Validation of the 30-item General Health Questionnaire in early pregnancy
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 18 (2), 503-507
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700008047
Abstract
Synopsis One-hundred-and-seventy-nine women attending their first antenatal clinic at two general practices in South London were asked to complete the 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) as part of a larger prospective longitudinal study into childbirth-related affective disorders. The women were later interviewed at home and a standardized psychiatric interview administered. Relative operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to determine the optimum cut-off point on the GHQ-30. Thirty-five per cent of the women were high scorers on the GHQ-30 (≥6) and 29% were found to be ‘cases’ at interview (CIS Overall Severity Rating ≥2).Keywords
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