motherStress {mdhglm}

Mother's Stress and Children's Morbidity Data

Description

Asar and Ilk (2014) considered the longitudinal data set from mother's stress and children's morbidity study (MSCM). In MSCM study, 167 mothers and their preschool children were enrolled for 28 days. Investigation of the serial dependence structures of the two longitudinal responses suggested a weak correlation structure for the period of days 1~16. Therefore, only the period of days 17~28 is considered in this data set.

Usage

data("motherStress")

Format

A data frame with 2004 observations on the following 14 variables.

id

subjects identifier for 167 mothers

stress

mother's stress (0=absence, 1=presence)

illness

children's illness status (0=absence, 1=presence)

married

mother's marriage status (0=other, 1=married)

education

mother's highest education level (0=less than high school, 1=more than high school)

employed

mother's employment status (0=unemployed, 1=employed)

chlth

health status of children at baeline (0=very poor/poor, 1=fair, 2=good, 3=very good)

mhlth

health status of mother at baeline (0=very poor/poor, 1=fair, 2=good, 3=very good)

race

children's race (0=white, 1=non-white)

csex

children's gender (0=male, 1=female)

housize

household size (0=2-3 people, 1=more than 3 people)

bstress

the average mother's stress of the 1~16 days

billness

the average children's illnes of the 1~16 days

week

study time (=(day-22)/7)

References

Asar, O. and Ilk, O. (2013). mmm: An R package for analyzing multivariate longitudinal data with multivariatemarginal models. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 112, 649–654.