World Health Survey 2003

United Arab Emirates, 2003

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Reference ID

ARE_2003_WHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes

Metadata

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Oct 16, 2013

Last modified

Oct 17, 2013

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H-Vignette - Set D Q-5 (q2105d)

Data file: WHS-UAE_F5

Overview

Valid: 296

Invalid: 884

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 455

End: 458

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
[Sue] is quadriplegic and must be washed, groomed, dressed and fed by somebody else.

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	3	1%
2	Mild	3	1%
3	Moderate	8	2.7%
4	Severe	115	38.9%
5	Extreme	167	56.4%
Sysmiss		884

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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