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-19 (q2119d)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 983

Invalid: 2955

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 512

End: 515

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
[Victor] requires no assistance with cleanliness, dressing and eating. He occasionally suffers from back pain and when this happens he needs help with bathing
and dressing. He always keeps himself tidy.

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days, how much difficulty did [name of person]
have with self-care, such as washing or dressing himself/herself?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	197	20%
2	Mild	374	38%
3	Moderate	305	31%
4	Severe	70	7.1%
5	Extreme	37	3.8%
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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