UMHLTH: Mental health scale score

Name: UMHLTH

Label: Mental health scale score

Text: The respondent mental health scale is derived by summing the responses to five items that ask how often in the past month the respondent had been a very nervous person (NDEPRESA), felt calm or peaceful (NDEPRESB), felt downhearted and blue (NDEPRESC), had been a happy person (NDEPRESD), and felt so down in the dumps that nothing could cheer him or her up (NDEPRESE). The response categories included all of the time (coded 1), most of the time (coded 2), some of the time (coded 3), and none of the time (coded 4). Responses to the questions about feeling calm or peaceful and being a happy person are reverse coded. Responses were totaled, creating a scale score ranging from 5 to 20. Scores for respondents who answered four of the five questions were standardized to the 20-point scale. A higher score indicates better mental health. Scores for respondents answering less than four questions were coded as .I (inapplicable).

Question:

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Response Categories

CodeLabelFreq.%
-1 619 2%
5 68 0%
6 75 0%
7 104 0%
8 219 1%
9 286 1%
10 519 2%
11 862 3%
12 1147 3%
13 2422 7%
14 3485 10%
15 3526 10%
16 5331 16%
17 5541 16%
18 5537 16%
19 2059 6%
20 2532 7%
Total34332100%

Disclaimer: The frequencies for this variable may not be weighted. They are purely descriptive and may not be representative of the study population. Please use with caution and consult the study documentation.

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Summary Statistics

  • total responses: 34332
  • valid: 34332
  • invalid: 0

Source

This variable was taken from: National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), 2002. You may:

Series

This study is part of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) Series. You may: