National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2015
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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| Indicator type: | Progress measure |
| Short name: | PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2015 |
| METEOR identifier: | 559046 |
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| Description: | Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress. |
| Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2015) Health, Superseded 08/07/2016 |
| Outcome area: | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Computation description: | Derived from the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, with higher scores indicating a higher level of distress; lower scores indicate a low level of distress. A ten item scale is currently employed by Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in general population collections (i.e. K10), while a modified five item scale is included in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population collections (K5). Total scores from the K10 scale will be grouped as follows:
Total scores from the K5 scale will be grouped as follows:
Presented as a percentage. Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors calculated for rates. |
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| Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
| Numerator: | Number of people aged 18 years or over with a very high distress score as measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. |
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| Denominator: | Population aged 18 years or over. |
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| Disaggregation: | State and territory by sex. Nationally by:
Grouped high/very high levels of psychological distress—State and territory by:
Grouped high/very high levels of psychological distress—Nationally by:
Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. |
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| Comments: | Most recent data available for the 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2011-12 (total population, non-Indigenous: AHS); 2012–13 (Indigenous only: AATSIHS). NO NEW DATA FOR 2015 REPORTING. The modified K5 scale from the 2012–13 AATSIHS was used with the corresponding 5 questions from the 2011-12 AHS to compare the psychological distress levels of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. |
Representational attributes | |
| Representation class: | Percentage |
| Data type: | Real |
| Unit of measure: | Person |
Data source attributes | |
| Data sources: | ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component) Data custodian Australian Bureau of Statistics Data custodian Australian Bureau of Statistics Data custodian Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Accountability attributes | |
| Reporting requirements: | National Healthcare Agreement |
| Organisation responsible for providing data: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Further data development / collection required: | Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Submitting organisation: | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2014
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11–Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2016
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