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WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK (2004): THE SECOND NATIONAL SCOTTISH SURVEY OF PUBLIC ATTITUDES TO MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Footnotes
1 This item was unprompted - no stimulus materials such as leaflets or stills from advertisements were used to aid recall.
2 The sample was drawn from the Postcode Address File and therefore limited to residential dwellings. Institutional populations such as prisons, hospitals, larger hostels etc. were excluded from the survey. Also, homeless people and dwellings not listed on PAF (caravans and other 'temporaryitutionidential dwellings. Inside Address File and therefore limited to residential dwellings. Insitt is quite long for a summa' dwellings) would also not have been sampled. The survey is therefore representative of adults in private dwellings rather than the whole adult population.
3 EDs are clusters of addresses used for collecting census data. The average ED contains about 200 households so the geographical size of each ED depends on the population density of that particular area.
4 NS-SEC is an occupationally based classification which has been introduced to all official statistics and surveys to replace the use of Socio-Economic Groups (SEG). More information on the definition of NS-SEC can be found at
www.statistics.gov.uk/methods_quality/ns_sec
5 The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2004 identifies the most deprived areas across Scotland. It is based on 31 indicators in the six individual domains of Current Income, Employment, Housing, Health, Education, Skills and Training and Geographic Access to Services and Telecommunications.
6 For the purposes of the survey, the Scottish Executive's six fold urban/rural classification had been adopted. This is based on settlement size and remoteness (measured by drive times) allowing more detailed geographical analysis to be conducted on a larger sample size. The classification being used in this report is the latest version.
7 The GHQ12 analysis can be summarised into two groups, those with an overall score of four or more, who are considered to exhibit signs of possible mental health problems (high GHQ12 scores), and those with scores of under four (low GHQ12 scores).
8 This code replaced 3 separate codes from 2002. These were: 'Support from/relationship with other family members', 'Support from/relationship with spouse/partner' and 'Support from/relationship with friends'
9 The survey was conducted face-to-face among 2,000 adults selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain.
10 The study formed part of a larger telephone omnibus survey, asked of a representative sample of 1,000 adults (aged 15+) in the Republic of Ireland.
11 However the findings for the word of mouth and health professionals variables should be approached with caution as there are few respondents in the significant categories (Word of mouth: base = 94 - 7.23%; health professionals (base = 100 - 7.69%)
12 As indicated by a score of less than four in the GHQ12 screening
13 As indicated by a score of four or more in the GHQ12 analysis
14 It is also worth considering the spread of responses compared with what might happen if respondents, unaware of the 'true' estimate, simply select responses at random. In the 2004 SE survey we would expect this to result in 10% of responses in each 10-point band, perhaps with some bunching around the mid-point. In the DoH study, with seven response categories (including Don't know) random answers would lead to around 14% of respondents selecting each category, again with some bunching around the middle value.
15 The GHQ12 analysis can be summarised into two groups, those with an overall score of four or more, who are considered to exhibit signs of possible mental health problems (high GHQ12 scores), and those with scores of under four (low GHQ12 scores).
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