World Health Survey 2003
Wave 0

Ghana, 2003

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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Feb 13, 2013

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Dec 05, 2013

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Worry or anxiety (q2091)

Data file: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Valid: 3927

Invalid: 11

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 188

End: 191

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Health State Descriptions Time Begin
Now I would like to review different functions of your body. When answering these questions, I would like you to think about the last 30 days, taking both good and bad days into account. When I ask about difficulty, I would like you to consider how much difficulty you have had, on an average, in the past 30 days, while doing the activity in the way that you usually do it. By difficulty I mean requiring increased effort, discomfort or pain, slowness or changes in the way you do the activity. Please answer this question taking into account any assistance you have available.

Affect

Literal question

Overall in the last 30 days, how much of a problem did you have with worry or anxiety?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	None	2354	59.9%
2	Mild	781	19.9%
3	Moderate	534	13.6%
4	Severe	227	5.8%
5	Extreme	31	0.8%
Sysmiss		11

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 intent of this question is to capture other negative emotional states such as feeling distressed, on edge, keyed up and tense. The person is unable to relax and tends to think disproportionately about relatively small matters.

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