Create older people indicators dataframe for mental health from survey data collected using the standard RAM-OP questionnaire.

Usage

create_op_mental(svy)

Arguments

svy: A dataframe collected using the standard RAM-OP questionnaire

Value

A tibble of older people indicators on mental health

K6 Short form psychological distress score

The K6 score is described in:

Kessler RC, Andrews G, Colpe LJ, Hiripi E, Mroczek, DK, Normand SLT, et al. (2002). Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distress. Psychological Medicine, 32(6), 959–976 doi:10.1017/S0033291702006074

K6: K6 score
K6Case: K6 score > 12 (in serious psychological distress)

Author

Mark Myatt

Examples

# Create mental health indicators dataset from RAM-OP survey data
# collected from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
create_op_mental(testSVY)
#> # A tibble: 192 × 5
#>      psu  sex1  sex2    K6 K6Case
#>    <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl>
#>  1   201     0     1     8      0
#>  2   201     1     0    18      1
#>  3   201     1     0    13      1
#>  4   201     0     1    14      1
#>  5   201     0     1    11      0
#>  6   201     1     0     0      0
#>  7   201     1     0     9      0
#>  8   201     0     1    14      1
#>  9   201     1     0     5      0
#> 10   201     0     1    11      0
#> # ℹ 182 more rows