The GHSQ records intentions to seek help from different people and services. The original questionnaire asks separately about personal or emotional problems and suicidal thoughts, allowing researchers to examine which sources people would approach and when they would seek help from no one.
Instructions and scoring
For each listed source, respondents mark a number from 1 (Extremely Unlikely) to 7 (Extremely Likely). The original form says help sources should be adapted to the target population.
Higher item ratings indicate stronger intentions to seek help from that particular source. The validation paper considers both a combined scale across problem contexts and separate scales for each problem type, and also discusses individual help sources. Keep the two problem contexts and individual sources identifiable; document any choice to combine them.
The downloadable form does not specify a compulsory sum-versus-mean rule, clinical cutoff, missing-data rule, or a rule for reversing the “no one” response; none is invented here. Consult the validation paper’s “Scale Reliability” section when choosing an analysis.