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Reliability and the factor structure of the Yoruba version of the 12‐item General Health Questionnaire
Author(s) -
Gureje O.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1991.tb03115.x
Subject(s) - yoruba , general health questionnaire , reliability (semiconductor) , internal consistency , psychology , clinical psychology , sample (material) , psychometrics , psychiatry , medicine , mental health , philosophy , linguistics , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , physics , chemistry , chromatography
The reliability and the factor structure of the Yoruba translation of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were investigated using data collected during a study of psychiatric morbidity among a sample of 787 primary care attendees. The instrument was shown to have a high degree of internal consistency. A two‐factor solution provided the best description of the GHQ in this setting. Using subsamples selected on the basis of sex and age, these two factors were shown to be stable. Also, using data collected on a second‐stage sample of 214 patients who were given a structured clinical interview, both factors discriminated “cases” from “non‐cases” and one of the factors discriminated between depressed from non‐depressed “cases”.