scholarly journals Maternal neurotic symptoms and infants' risk of developing persistent diarrhoea

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Humphreys ◽  
Magdalena Araya ◽  
Sylvia Cruchet ◽  
Julio Espinoza ◽  
Oscar Brunser
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
Predictive Score ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Negative Group ◽  
Persistent Diarrhoea ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

A previously calculated predictive model for health risk selects infants who suffer 4-5 times more morbidity than their unselected peers. Preliminary results suggested that this risk is related to maternal neurotic symptomatology. To evaluate this hypothesis, 52 consecutive mothers whose infants had a positive predictive score (Group 1) and 52 in whom this was negative (Group 2) were evaluated by means of Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire (GHQ - 30). A total of 41.9% and 20.5% of the mothers in Groups 1 and 2, respectively, scored above 11 points in GHQ-30, established as the cut off point. It is concluded that among poor urban families in Santiago mothers of infants with high risk of persistent diarrhoea have increased frequency of detectable neurotic symptoms. New programs aimed at this type of infant should include psychological support for their mothers.

Neuroticism and psychological distress: To what extent is their association due to person-environment correlation?

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.B. Ploubidis ◽  
S. Frangou
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Life Events ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
Inherent Vulnerability ◽  
Second Wave

AbstractObjectiveTo examine to what extent the association between neuroticism and psychological distress is related to individuals’ inherent vulnerability or their tendency to self-select high-risk environments or situations.MethodData was drawn from both waves (1984/1985 and 1991) of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Psychological distress was evaluated using the 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) and neuroticism was assessed with the Eysenck Personality Inventory. A checklist of life events was completed in the second wave only. A Latent State Trait model was estimated to decompose psychological distress into its environmental-contextual and individual-specific components.ResultsNeuroticism accounted for 31 and 10% respectively of the variance of the environmental-contextual and individual-specific psychological distress components.ConclusionsOur results favour the notion that individuals with high-levels of neuroticism tend to self-select situations likely to lead to adversity and distress.

Validity indices of the General Health Questionnaire among general hospital inpatients

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (S 01) ◽  
Author(s):  
F Friedrich ◽  
R Alexandrowicz ◽  
N Benda ◽  
G Cerny ◽  
J Wancata
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Validity Indices ◽  
Hospital Inpatients

Using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire to screen psychological distress from survivorship to end-of-life care: dimensionality and item quality

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 954-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Gao ◽  
Daniel Stark ◽  
Michael I. Bennett ◽  
Richard J. Siegert ◽  
Scott Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Item Quality
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