World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

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GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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Feb 13, 2013

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depression most of the day nearly every day (q6032)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 1169

Invalid: 2769

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1112

End: 1115

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

During last 12 months, have you experienced any of the following…
For this set of questions, the interviewer must read out a series of symptoms and determine if the respondent had any of those symptoms in the last 12 months. The point of asking symptom-related questions is to screen those individuals who might have a specific health condition or disease. Because there could be a number of symptoms that characterise a given health condition, and because some symptoms may be common to different conditions, it is important that the interviewer probe for each symptom to see whether the respondent may have an active disease. It is also important that the time period for the symptoms (in the last 12 months) be clearly understood by the respondent and not confused with other time frames used in this section (such as "ever" and "the last 2 weeks").

Literal question

Was this period [of sadness/loss of interest/low energy] most of the day, nearly every day?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	465	39.8%
5	No	704	60.2%
Sysmiss		2769

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

The emphasis is on the symptoms of low mood/energy being present for most of the day (not just one or two hours), and occurring nearly every day (not just one or two days) over an extended period.

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