World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collections

Health

Metadata

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Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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H-Vignette - Set D Q-11 (q2111d)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 983

Invalid: 2955

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 480

End: 483

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

VIGNETTES FOR HEALTH STATE DESCRIPTIONS
I will now read to you some descriptions of persons with varying levels of difficulties in different areas of health. I would like to know how you view each of these descriptions and rate how much of a problem or difficulty the person described has in that area of health in the same way that you described your health to me. While giving the rating, think of the person as someone who is of your age and background.

Cognition and Self Care
[Theo] cannot concentrate for more than 15 minutes and has difficulty paying attention to what is being said to him. Whenever he starts a task, he never
manages to finish it and often forgets what he was doing. He is able to learn the names of people he meets but cannot be trusted to follow directions to a store
by himself.

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days overall how much difficulty did [name of the
person] have with concentrating or remembering things?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	29	3%
2	Mild	67	6.8%
3	Moderate	257	26.1%
4	Severe	528	53.7%
5	Extreme	102	10.4%
Sysmiss		2955

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Show and read rating scale to respondent; use in vignettes country specific female/male first names to match sex of the respondent.

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