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Figure 48: Percentage of women and men scoring 4 or more on GHQ-12.
60
52.2
50
46.4
Percent of sample
40
30
20
27
24
21
19
17 17
13 14
Scotland
(1995)
England
(1995)
N Ireland
(1997)
N Ireland
(2001)
N Ireland
(PAVE)
10
0
Women
Men
Adapted from O’Reilly & Brown (2001) and McWhirter (2002).
Although a certain level of cultural differences was found in GHQ-12 scores of the
general population across the nations, the differences were marginal. However,
participants in the present study, thus people who were affected by trauma and who
were services users of voluntary sector victims groups in 2005-06, scored much
higher than the general population.
Within this population, a comparison between pre- and post-ceasefires shows not
much difference. In the mid-1980s, and thus at the height of the Troubles and over 10
years pre-ceasefires, the GHQ-30 mean score for violently bereaved widows (service
users of victims groups) was 9.8(SD 8.2) and 67% of the widows were classified as
cases (Dillenburger, 1992). Shortly after the Good Friday Agreement, the GHQ-30
mean score in this population was 8.1 (SD 10.06) and 43% were classified as cases