The Cornell medical index health questionnaire in the identification of neurotic patients in general practice

1962 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Brown ◽  
John Fry
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Medical Index

THE CORNELL MEDICAL INDEX-HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE VII: THE PREDICTION OF PSYCHOSOMATIC AND PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES IN ARMY TRAINING

1954 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEEVE BRODMAN ◽  
ALBERT J. ERDMANN ◽  
IRVING LORGE ◽  
JEROME DEUTSCHBERGER ◽  
HAROLD G. WOLFF
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disabilities ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Army Training ◽  
Medical Index

A Factor Analytic Study of the 60-Item General Health Questionnaire in Australian Community and General Practice Settings

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. W. Burvill ◽  
M. W. Knuiman ◽  
R. A. Finlay-Jones
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Analytic Study ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Positive Finding ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Factor Analytic Study ◽  
Significant Difference

A factor analytic study of responses to a 60-item General Health Questionnaire of people in general practice and in the community in Perth, Western Australia, was performed. Five identified factors, accounting for 46% of the variance, were very similar to factors identified in an English general practice study but differed from two published Australian studies. The statistic of a relative GHQ profile was generated to compare these factors in various sets of data. There was no significant difference between the relative GHQ profile in the community and general practice data or between demographic factors such as sex, social class and country of birth. The major positive finding was of an excess of overtly psychological factors in ‘cases’ compared with an excess of more physical factors in ‘non-cases’.

Personal Discomfort in Australian Aborigines

1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Cawte ◽  
G. N. Bianchi ◽  
L. G. Kiloh
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Complaints ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
Aboriginal Australians ◽  
The North ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Medical Index ◽  
Economically Deprived ◽  
Ethnic Subgroups ◽  
Bodily Function

The question is asked whether Aboriginal Australians are the happy, healthy people many European Australians perceive them to be. 294 Aboriginal adults belonging to four ethnic subgroups on Mornington Island in the north of Australia completed a modified Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire. Reported discomfort was high, especially among the more economically-deprived and the immigrant. The female excess of complaints was notable; age effects were prominent only on items concerning bodily function. There were five peaks of discomfort, evidenced by respiratory and musculoskeletal complaints and symptoms of exhaustion, inadequacy and irritability. A 20-item questionnaire for trans-cultural use is presented.

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