R: General Health Questionnaire

GHQ {HSAUR} | R Documentation

## General Health Questionnaire

### Description

Data from an psychiatric screening questionnaire

### Usage

    data("GHQ")

### Format

A data frame with 22 observations on the following 4 variables.

`GHQ`

  the General Health Questionnaire score.

`sex`

  a factor with levels `female` and `male`

`cases`

  the number of diseased subjects.

`non.cases`

  the number of healthy subjects.

### Details

The data arise from a study of a psychiatric screening questionnaire called the GHQ (General Health Questionnaire, see Goldberg, 1972). Here the main question of interest is to see how caseness is related to gender and GHQ score.

### Source

D. Goldberg (1972). The Detection of Psychiatric Illness by Questionnaire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

### Examples

      data("GHQ", package = "HSAUR")
      male <- subset(GHQ, sex == "male")
      female <- subset(GHQ, sex == "female")
      layout(matrix(1:2, ncol = 2))
      barplot(t(as.matrix(male[,c("cases", "non.cases")])), main = "Male", xlab = "GHC score")
      barplot(t(as.matrix(male[,c("cases", "non.cases")])), main = "Female", xlab = "GHC score")

[Package HSAUR version 1.3-9 Index]