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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2015

Indicator Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termIndicator
Indicator type:Help on this termProgress measure
Short name:Help on this termPI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2015
METEOR identifier:Help on this term559046
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Superseded 08/07/2016
Description:Help on this termProportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress.
Indicator set:Help on this term

National Healthcare Agreement (2015)
Health, Superseded 08/07/2016

Outcome area:Help on this termPrevention
Health, Standard 07/07/2010

Collection and usage attributes

Computation description:Help on this term

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:

  • 10-15 Low;
  • 16-21 Moderate;
  • 22-29 High; and
  • 30-50 Very high.

Total scores from the K5 scale will be grouped as follows:

  • 5-11 Low/moderate; and
  • 12-25 High/very high.

Presented as a percentage. Rates are directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population. 95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors calculated for rates.

Computation:Help on this term100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Numerator:Help on this termNumber of people aged 18 years or over with a very high distress score as measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale.
Numerator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—age

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Kessler Psychological Distress Scale score

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—age

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Kessler Psychological Distress Scale score

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Measures Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Denominator:Help on this termPopulation aged 18 years or over.
Denominator data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—age

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—age

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Disaggregation:Help on this term

State and territory by sex.

Nationally by:

  • remoteness (Australian Standard Geography Structure (ASGS) Remoteness Structure)
  • 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles and deciles
  • sex by 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintiles
  • remoteness (major city, other) by 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles.
  • disability status

Grouped high/very high levels of psychological distress—State and territory by:

  • Indigenous status
  • remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure)
  • 2011 SEIFA IRSD quintiles
  • disability status

Grouped high/very high levels of psychological distress—Nationally by:

  • sex by remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure)
  • remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure) by 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles

Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.

Disaggregation data elements:Help on this term
Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—disability status

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—Indigenous status

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—sex, code N

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Used for disaggregation by state/territory, remoteness and SEIFA

Data Element / Data Set

Data ElementHelp on this term

Person—area of usual residence, statistical area level 2 (SA2) code (ASGS 2011) N(9)

Data SourceHelp on this term

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey component)

Guide for useHelp on this term

Data source type: Survey

Used for disaggregation by state/territory

Comments:Help on this term

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:Help on this termPercentage
Data type:Help on this termReal
Unit of measure:Help on this termPerson

Data source attributes

Data sources:Help on this term
Data Source

ABS Australian Health Survey (AHS), 2011–13 (2011–12 National Health Survey component)

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey component)

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Data Source

ABS Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (AATSIHS), 2012–13 (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Measures Survey component)

Data custodian

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Accountability attributes

Reporting requirements:Help on this termNational Healthcare Agreement
Organisation responsible for providing data:Help on this termAustralian Bureau of Statistics
Further data development / collection required:Help on this term

Specification: Final, the measure meets the intention of the indicator.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this termAustralian Bureau of Statistics

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11-Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2014
  • Health, Superseded 14/01/2015
Has been superseded by National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11–Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2016
  • Health, Superseded 31/01/2017
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