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Keeping track of your mental health
Published in John Measey, How to Publish in Biological Sciences, 2023
The General Health Questionnaire is an instrument used to measure psychological distress. For example, you could use the GHQ-12 (given in Table 4.11 of Measey, 2021). It is quick, reliable and simple to score, so you can use it at any time during your career as an indicator of whether you need to reach out to personal, occupational or professional support networks. My suggestion is that you complete a General Health Questionnaire now and record your answers as a baseline. Keep the scores somewhere safe. If you feel that you are getting overly stressed, take the test again and compare them with your baseline scores. Although there are no hard rules, if three or more of your scores have moved by two or more points it could be worth discussing with your support network to help you decide whether or not to seek professional help.
EMI – psychology
Published in Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat, MRCPsych Part 1 In a Box, 2019
Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat
1. A. General Health Questionnaire: a self-administered questionnaire which focuses on two major areas: (i) the inability to carry out normal functions and (ii) the appearance of new and distressing symptoms. The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is available in the following versions:
Paper 2: Answers
Published in Sabina Burza, Beata Mougey, Srinivas Perecherla, Nakul Talwar, Practice Examination Papers for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Sabina Burza, Beata Mougey, Srinivas Perecherla, Nakul Talwar
D. The General Health Questionnaire is a 60-item, self-administered tool that takes approximately 15 minutes to complete (shorter versions are also available). It refers to symptoms within the last 4 weeks. Scoring above the cut-off indicates that psychiatric morbidity is likely, but does not equate with a diagnosis. (19: p.155)
Virtual reality training improves dynamic balance in children with cerebral palsy
Published in International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Morteza Pourazar, Fazlolah Bagherzadeh, Fatemeh Mirakhori
The experiment performed individually in a quiet room. General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used to assess the general health of participants at baseline (Goldberg and Hillier 1979). Before starting the intervention, barefooted participants conducted 1 practice trials in each direction (anterior, posterolateral, and posteromedial) by Modified star excursion balance test (SEBT). Children with cerebral palsy were asked to stand on one leg in the middle of three directions, while hanging their arms beside the body. Participants placed their healthy foot at the center and attempted to reach at the furthest point in each three direction with their affected foot and then return to the starting point while maintaining their balance on the stance limb. The average of 3 formal trials in each direction was considered as maximum reach distance and was used for the analysis in both pre-test and post-test phases.
Pathways to adolescents’ health: chronotype, bedtime, sleep quality and mental health
Published in Chronobiology International, 2021
Makbule Tokur-Kesgin, Deniz Kocoglu-Tanyer
The mean age of the students in the study was 16.2 ± 0.9 (15–18). 54.7% of the sample were female students, while 50.2% of the participants attended socio-economically disadvantaged schools. 43.2% of the students stated that they had experienced stress or health problems affecting sleep in the previous week. 19.4% of students experienced difficulties falling asleep; 5.7% of them wake up frequently at night. 78.8% were required alarm or family support to wake up, and 61.7% had a hobby. While the students’ average bedtime was 11:07 ± 1:08 P.M. on weekdays, it is 1:36 ± 1:4 A.M. on weekends. The average value for MEQ was found as 43.4 ± 5.7, while it was 3.14 ± 0.9 for sleep quality. The average value of the general health questionnaire was 3.02 ± 3.0 (Table 1).
A Review of Studies of the Association of Vision-Related Quality of Life with Measures of Visual Function and Structure in Patients with Glaucoma in the United States
Published in Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2021
Naira Khachatryan, Maxwell Pistilli, Maureen G. Maguire, Angela Y. Chang, Marissa R. Samuels, Kristen Mulvihill, Rebecca J. Salowe, Joan M. O’Brien
The NEI VFQ-25 has the following vision-targeted subscales: (i) global vision rating (General Vision), (ii) difficulty with near vision activities (Near Activities), (iii) difficulty with distance vision activities (Distance Activities), (iv) limitations in social functioning due to vision (Vision-Specific Social Functioning), (v) role limitations due to vision (Vision-Specific Role Difficulties), (vi) dependency on others due to vision (Vision-Specific Dependency), (vii) mental health symptoms due to vision (Vision-Specific Mental Health), (viii) driving difficulties (Driving), (ix) limitations with peripheral vision (Peripheral Vision), (x) limitations with color vision (Color Vision), (xi) ocular pain (Ocular Pain). In addition, it includes a self-rated general health questionnaire (General Health). The composite score ranges from 0 to 100, with 0 representing extreme disability related to vision and 100 representing minimal to no disability.