Do errors in the GHQ-12 response options matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The twelve item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is a widely used measure of psychological wellbeing. Because there are seven different sets of response options across the twelve items, there is scope for transcription errors to occur when researchers assemble their study materials. The impact of such errors might be more important if they occur in the first set of response options than if they occur later in the questionnaire, once participants have become aware that options to the right of the GHQ-12 response sets always indicate worse wellbeing.

Aims

To test the impact of introducing errors into the first and eighth set of response options for the GHQ-12 that render those response sets partially illogical.

Methods

We used a double-blind randomised c

SUBMITTER: Croak B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620626 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature