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The design and development of a screening questionnaire (CHQ) for use in community studies of mental disorders in Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Tai-Ann Cheng  and
Paul Williams
Tai-Ann Cheng*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Paul Williams
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr T.-A. Cheng, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, 1 Chang-te Street, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Synopsis

The problems which arise in the use of a psychiatric screening instrument in a language and culture other than that in which it was designed and developed are considered. An account is given of the development of a psychiatric screening questionnaire suitable for use in Chinese community samples. The questionnaire was derived from a Chinese translation of the General Health Questionnaire, with the addition of specially designed, culturally-relevant items. Discriminant function analysis was then used to select a subset of 12 items which discriminated well between ‘cases’ and ‘normals’ in the community.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 415 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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