Morales CF, Pimentel ND, Sánchez BC, Henales AC

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 313-318
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ABSTRACT

Objective: To propose a short version of the Goldberg’s General Health Questionnaire that can be applied as a screening test in nonspecialized in mental health public institutions.
Patients and methods: Women older than 18 years from Instituto Nacional de Perinatología consult. General Health Questionnaire application (30 items), during nine consecutive months. It was used the 7/8 cut-off point to differentiate between case and non-case patients. Descriptive, of factorial analysis, sensibility and specificity statistical process were used. An agreement analysis between versions was done, and the new version of 15 items was applied to an independent sample. With goodness-of-fit χ² test, and to corroborate equality between both versions, proportions obtained were compared.
Results: With 15 items it was generated an instrument that demonstrates its utility to screen psychological uneasiness cases, with a sensitivity of 0.988, specificity of 0.828 and a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.910.
Conclusions: Short version of the General Health Questionnaire is a reliable instrument to timely identify psychological uneasiness in women, and to derive them to a mental health institution.

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