The design and development of a screening questionnaire (CHQ) for use in community studies of mental disorders in Taiwan.
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.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013624:Taiwan