World Health Survey 2003

Zimbabwe, 2003

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Reference ID

ZWE_2003_WHS_v01_M

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World Health Organization (WHO)

Collection(s)

WHO’s Multi-Country Studies Programmes Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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medication for depression (q6027)

Data file: WHS-Zimbabwe_F5

Overview

Valid: 3698

Invalid: 402

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 2

Start: 1093

End: 1096

Width: 4

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

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

Literal question

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

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	34	0.9%
5	No	3664	99.1%
8	Do not know	0	0%
Sysmiss		402

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 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.

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