Open AccessPsychiatric symptoms in a Spanish sample with hereditary cancer risk
Author(s) -
Gema Costa-Requena,
Mercedes Garcia-Garijo,
Paula Richart-Aznar,
Ángel Segura-Huerta
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of community genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.774
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1868-6001
pISSN - 1868-310X
DOI - 10.1007/s12687-022-00580-5
Subject(s) - medicine , psychiatry , anxiety , exploratory factor analysis , depression (economics) , distress , clinical psychology , psychometrics , macroeconomics , economics
An integral part of the genetic counselling process is the assessment of psychiatric morbidity. The objectives of this study were first to assess psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28items) in a Spanish sample at increased risk of hereditary cancer, and second evaluated the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and the contribution of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics to predict distress.