National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11–Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2022
Indicator Attributes
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, 2022 |
METEOR identifier: | 740874 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Description: | Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress. |
Indicator set: | National Healthcare Agreement (2022) Health, Standard 24/09/2021 |
Outcome area: | Prevention Health, Standard 07/07/2010 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 18 years |
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Computation description: | Derived from the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, with higher scores indicating a higher level of distress; lower scores indicating a low level of distress. A ten item scale is currently employed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in general population collections (i.e. K10), while a 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 are calculated for rates. |
Computation: | Crude rate: 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | Number of people aged 18 and over with a very high distress score as measured by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale. |
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Denominator: | Population aged 18 and 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 2022 National Healthcare Agreement performance reporting: 2017–18 (total population, non-Indigenous: NHS); 2018–19 (Indigenous only: NATSIHS). NO NEW DATA FOR 2022 REPORTING. The K5 scale from the 2018–19 NATSIHS was used with the corresponding 5 questions from the 2017–18 NHS to compare the psychological distress levels of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) or National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) data may be used for analysis, dependent upon which survey is most recent. Data for the Northern Territory should be interpreted with caution as the NHS excludes Very Remote areas and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. These exclusions are unlikely to affect national estimates, and will only have a minor effect on aggregate estimates produced for individual states and territories, excepting the Northern Territory where around 20% of the population lived in Very Remote areas in the 2017–18 reporting period. For the 2017–18 NHS and the 2018–19 NATSIHS, age standardised 95% confidence intervals and RSEs are not available. Please refer to associated crude 95 per cent confidence intervals and RSEs. Further details on psychological distress among Indigenous Australians are available from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (measure 1.18: Social and emotional wellbeing). |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
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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 |
Reference documents: | Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2012. Information Paper: Use of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale in ABS Health Surveys, Australia, 2007–08, ABS cat.no. 4817.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 27 September 2019, https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ProductsbyCatalogue/ Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2020. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 19 February 2021, https://indigenoushpf.gov.au/ |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes National Healthcare Agreement: PI 11–Proportion of adults with very high levels of psychological distress, 2021 Health, Standard 03/07/2020 |