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. 1986 May;16(2):415-22.
doi: 10.1017/s0033291700009247.

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

T A Cheng, P Williams

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

T A Cheng et al. Psychol Med. 1986 May.

Abstract

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.

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