Living Standards Survey III 1991-1992 - World Bank SHIP Harmonized Dataset

Ghana, 1991 - 1992

Reference ID

GHA_1991_GLSS_v01_M_v01_A_SHIP

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

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medication for depression (q6027)

Data file: WHS-Zimbabwe_F5

Overview

Valid: 3698

Invalid: 402

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you been taking any medications or other treatment for it in the last two weeks?

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
5	No
8	Do not know
Sysmiss

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.

Question pretext

During the last 12 months, have you ever been diagnosed with depression?

Interviewer instructions

The purpose of this question is to find out if the respondent is currently under treatment for depression. An answer of “yes” is appropriate only if the respondent was taking any medications for depression during the last two weeks, or received some other kind of treatment such as attending a psychological therapy or counselling session (often referred to as "therapy" or "psychotherapy") with a trained health professional during the last two
weeks.
See the explanation for question Q6002.