The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a psychometric screening tool to identify common psychiatric conditions.
[7][8] When a participant completes the questionnaire the values of their responses are then summed to give a final score between 0 and 180.
Medical professionals establish score ranges that indicate the severity of any psychiatric issues.
[citation needed] The original study that proposed the GHQ was published in 1970 by David Goldberg and Dr.
[9] The high accuracy of the questionnaire proved that it was equivalent to a psychiatrist's or practitioner's diagnosis and could be used as a method of evaluating patients.