symptom {simfit}

Responses to symptoms from a sample of the general population of Pakistan.

Description

A dataset containing the age, gender, number of days on which symptoms were experienced, number of days on which help was sought, as well as measures of impulsivity and attitudes to medicines.

Usage

symptom

Format

A data frame with 53940 rows and 10 variables:

id

participant ID, integer

age5

age in 5 year bins, (18,20) (20,25) (25,30) (30,35) (35,40) (40,45) (45,50) (50,55) (55,60) (60,65)

gender

female, male, character

bmq_spec

Pakistan adaption of Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (Specific) Stored as POMP score 0-100

bmq_necess

Pakistan adaption of Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (Necessity) Stored as POMP score 0-100

bmq_concern

Pakistan adaption of Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire, (Concern) Stored as POMP score 0-100

bmq_general

Pakistan adaption of Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire, (General) Stored as POMP score 0-100

bis

Pakistan adaption of Barratt Impuslivity Scale, Stored as POMP score 0-100

symp_days_reported

Number of days on which symptoms were reported, Non-negative integer (days)

actual_help_days

Number of days on which participants visited some type of health professional, Non-negative integer

Source

https://osf.io/4mjhq/

data from Anwar M, Green JA, Norris P, et al Prospective daily diary study reporting of any and all symptoms in healthy adults in Pakistan: prevalence and #' response BMJ Open 2017;7:e014998 doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014998