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Responses of Australian patients with gynaecological disorders to the General Health Questionnaire: a factor analytic study.

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posted on 2024-06-03, 11:38 authored by Tony WorsleyTony Worsley, WA Walters, EC Wood
One hundred and twenty-seven out-patients attending a gynaecology clinic completed the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ, 60-item version) and a role problems checklist (RPCL). Principal factors analysis of the GHQ yielded 8 factors which were named: poor performance (which accounted for 63.3% of total variance), depression-anxiety, sleep-disturbance, anhedonia anergia, loss of confidence, general illness, social dysfunction and headache. These results were compared with previous principal components analyses of the GHQ (Goldberg, 1972; Goldberg et al. 1976). A multiple regression analysis indicated that age and 7 of the 8 factors were significantly related to the number of role problems reported by the patients. However, it appears that psychiatric distress (as measured by the GHQ) and role problems were only related to a small degree (multiple R2 = 12.69% only).

History

Journal

Psychological Medicine

Volume

8

Pagination

131-138

Location

England

ISSN

0033-2917

Language

eng

Publication classification

CN.1 Other journal article

Issue

1

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)