Poverty, unemployment, and common mental disorders: population based cohort study
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weich1998 - p. 115
Data were collected for the British household panel survey, an annual survey of individuals in private households in England, Wales, and Scotland.
weich1998 - p. 116
Common mental disorders were assessed with the general health questionnaire, comprising 12 items.20 We followed previous studies in treating common mental disorders as a single dimension.3 21 The questionnaire was scored in two ways: by designating each item as absent or present (0 or 1) according to the method of the general health questionnaire20; and according to severity (range 0 to 3) (the Likert method).
weich1998 - p. 116
To overcome likely colinearity between indices of standard of living, a poverty score comprising seven items was generated from variables previously judged to provide a comprehensive yet frugal assessment of each subject’s standard of living.11
weich1998 - p. 116
Subjective financial strain at T1 was assessed by asking: “How well would you say you are managing financially these days?”, responses to which were coded as: (a) living comfortably or doing alright; (b) just about getting by; or, (c) finding it difficult or very difficult.
weich1998 - p. 116
Regression analyses were conducted using the Huber-White sandwich estimator to control for the clustering of respondents within households