UK Health Survey for England | Thai Cohort Study (TCS) | |||
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Original format | UK-TCS harmonised | Original format | TCS-UK harmonised | |
Psychological distress | General Health Questionnaire-(GHQ) 12 questions:a able to concentrate, lost much sleep over worry, felt playing useful part in things, felt capable of making decisions, felt constantly under strain, felt could not overcome difficulties, able to enjoy normal day-to-day activities, been able to face problems, been feeling unhappy and depressed, been losing confidence in self, been thinking of self as worthless, been feeling reasonably happy | Final binary outcome: a | Kessler Psychological distress: (three questions) | Final binary outcome: |
High distress score 4+: 11.7% (132) | In the past 4 weeks, about how often… 1) did you feel nervous? 2) did you feel restless and fidgety? 3) did you feel that everything was an effort? | High distress (all/most of the time) 12.3% (3,857) | ||
Responses on a five-point scale: ‘all of the time’, ‘most of the time’, ‘some of the time’, ‘little of the time’, ‘none of the time’. | ||||
‘All’ or ‘most’ of the time coded as having high distress; rest code as no serious problem. | ||||
Job security | How likely is it that you will lose your job and become unemployed within the next twelve months? Please estimate the probability of such a chance on a scale from 0 to 100. (0 means that such a change will definitely not take place. 100 means that such a change definitely will take place.) | Collapsed response categories: | How secure do you feel about your job or career future on your current occupation? | Response categories: Extremely secure 18.5% (5726) |
0 28.0% (317) b | Secure 50.1% (15553) | |||
10–30 40.6% (459) | - Extremely secure | Moderately secure 21.5% (6,667) | ||
40–60 19.5% (221) | - Secure | Not at all secure 10.0% (3,094) | ||
>60 11.9% (135) | - Moderately secure | |||
- Not at all secure | ||||
Decision at work | Do you have a choice deciding how you go about your work? | Collapsed response categories: | I have a good deal of say in decisions about work | Response categories: |
Often 55.1% (16,996) | ||||
All/most of the | - Often | Sometimes 33.4% (10,295) | ||
- All of the time | time 48.5% (547) | - Sometimes | ||
- Rarely | Rarely 9.1% (2,807) | |||
- Most of the time | Much/some of the time 35.3% (398) | - Never | Never 2.5% (760) | |
Occasionally 11.9% (135) | ||||
Never 4.2% (47) | ||||
- Much of the time | ||||
- Some of the time | ||||
- Occasionally | ||||
- Never | ||||
Coping with demands | How much do you agree or disagree with the statement that ‘I feel able to cope with the demands of my job’? | Collapsed response categories: | Your work situation… I have enough time to do everything | Response categories: |
Often (strongly agree) 38.9% (438) | - Often | Often 48.2% (14,834) | ||
- Sometimes | Sometime 40.5% (12,473) | |||
- Rarely | Rarely/never 11.3% (3,475) | |||
- Strongly agree | Sometime (agree) 49.1% (553) | - Never | ||
- Agree | ||||
- Neither agree nor disagree | Rarely/never 12.0% (135) | |||
(neither agree nor disagree/ | ||||
- Disagree | disagree/strongly disagree) | |||
- Strongly disagree | ||||
Support from employers | Do you get help and support from your line manager? | Collapsed response categories: | How would you rate the support you are getting from employer/boss? | Collapsed response categories: |
- Often | Often 39.9% (449) | - A lot of support | Often (lot/quite a bit) 58.4% (17,937) | |
- Sometimes | - Quite a bit of support | |||
- Seldom | Sometimes 34.6% (389) | - A little support | Sometimes (little) 23.8% (7,309) | |
- Never | Seldom/never 12.5% (140) | - Very little support | Seldom (very little) 8.7% (2,680) | |
- Does not apply/have no manager | Does not apply 12.9% (145) | - Not relevant | Not apply (not relevant 9.1% (2,790) | |
Occupation status | National Statistics Socio-economic Classification | Response categories: | Current occupation | Response categories: |
- managerial and professional | High 53.1% (597) | professionals/managers | High 25.3% (6,703) | |
- intermediate | Medium 18.8% (211) | - office assistants | Medium 44.3% (11,758) | |
- routine and manual | Low 28.2% (317) | - skilled and manual workers | Low 30.4% (8,059) |