This article is a correction to:
Construct validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in patients with COVID-19 and its demographic and medical correlates
Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad1,2,3,4,5*†
Farnaz Etesam6,7†Pardis Salehi Yegaei1†
Zahra Vahabi6,8*†Niusha Akbari Saneh9Fatemeh Fathi10Fatemeh Ghosi11
Nora Wiium12- 1Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
- 2Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- 3Department of Health Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 4Positive Youth Development Lab, Human Development and Family Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
- 5Center of Excellence in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
- 6Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Ziaeian Hospital, Tehran, Iran
- 7Psychosomatic Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran
- 8Cognitive Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran, Iran
- 9Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 10Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
- 11Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Al Zahra, Tehran, Iran
- 12Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
A corrigendum on
Construct validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in patients with COVID-19 and its demographic and medical correlates
by Habibi Asgarabad, M., Etesam, F., Salehi Yegaei, P., Vahabi, Z., Akbari Saneh, N., Fathi, F., Ghosi, F., and Wiium, N. (2023). Front. Psychol. 14:1132154. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1132154
In the published article, there was an error in the article title. An old version of the title was used. Instead of “Measurement invariance of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) across gender and age: demographic and medical correlates of mental health in patients with COVID-19”, it should be “Construct validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in patients with COVID-19 and its demographic and medical correlates.”
In addition, there was an error in Discussion, Paragraph 1. The paragraph included information related to statistical analysis which was removed from our study. The paragraph previously stated: “The present study sought to evaluate the psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire-12 in patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of COVID-19. Overall, our results provided support for the construct and criterion validity, internal consistency, and invariance of GHQ-12 across age (under 60 vs. over 60) and gender (male vs. female). Therefore, this questionnaire showed that it can be applied in Iranian COVID-19 patients.” The corrected paragraph appears below:
“The present study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the General Health Questionnaire-12 in patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19. Overall, our results offer support for the construct validity, criterion validity, and internal consistency of GHQ-12. Therefore, this questionnaire demonstrates its applicability in Iranian COVID-19 patients.”
The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: COVID-19, concurrent validity, general health, medical condition, reliability, sleep, activities of daily life, stress
Citation: Habibi Asgarabad M, Etesam F, Salehi Yegaei P, Vahabi Z, Akbari Saneh N, Fathi F, Ghosi F and Wiium N (2023) Corrigendum: Construct validity of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in patients with COVID-19 and its demographic and medical correlates. Front. Psychol. 14:1333704. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1333704
Received: 05 November 2023; Accepted: 29 November 2023;
Published: 12 December 2023.
Edited and reviewed by: Vincenzo Auriemma, University of Salerno, Italy
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*Correspondence: Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad, Mojtaba.h.asgarabad@ntnu.no; Zahra Vahabi, zvahabi@sina.tums.ac.ir
†ORCID: Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad orcid.org/0000-0002-5011-2823
Farnaz Etesam orcid.org/0000-0002-4083-4216
Pardis Salehi Yegaei orcid.org/0000-0002-0773-650X
Zahra Vahabi orcid.org/0000-0001-5057-8028