caa a22 4500 38635443X CHVBK 20180307111846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700012526 doi S0033291700012526 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700012526 Validation of 30- and 12-item versions of the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ) in patients admitted for general health screening [Elektronische Daten] A study of the validity of the 30- and 12-item versions of the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ) was carried out with a consecutive sample of 386 patients admitted during one year to a medical centre in Taiwan for a 3-day comprehensive general health screening. The Chinese version of the Clinical Interview Schedule was used to derive a criterion measure of minor psychiatric morbidity. The areas under the Relative Operating Charcteristic curves of both short versions of the CHQ were equivalent (area = 0·85, S.D. = 0·02). The sensitivities of the CHQ-30 and CHQ-12 were found to be 76 and 78% respectively, while the specificity of both was 77%. The estimated prevalence of minor psychiatric morbidity in the sample was 37% (95% confidence intervals 32-41%). In contrast, physicians diagnosed 11% of these patients as having psychiatric disorders, and their sensitivity was 29%. Taken altogether, the above findings suggest that the CHQ-12 is as effective as and is more efficient than the CHQ-30 in this context, and could be used by physicians in similar settings to improve their identification of minor psychiatric disorders in Chinese patients. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Chong Mian-Yoon General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London Wilkinson Greg General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 495-505 0033-2917 19:2<495 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700012526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chong Mian-Yoon General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilkinson Greg General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/2(1989-05), 495-505 0033-2917 19:2<495 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge