The development of psychometric test “The Thai mental health questionnaire".

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to develop the Thai Mental Health Questionnaire, having sufficient discriminate power, adequate construct validity, and reliability. The subject were two groups; (1) pilot study samples 60 samples and (2) survey samples were 700 samples consisted of normals, psychiatric outpatients, and psychiatric inpatients. Data collected from the Thai Mental health Questionnaire was developed from criteria based on the DSM-IV. The results of this study showed that the final test composed of 70 items - was found to be significantly different at the .001 level between those people with mental disorders and normal people. The construct validity of this test consists of five factors somatic, depression, anxiety, psychotic, and social function. The reliability coefficients for the Alpha were range from 0.82 to 0.94.