Ghana - World Health Survey 2003, Wave 0

Reference ID

GHA_2003_WHS_v01_M

Year

2003

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

World Health Organization (WHO)

Sponsor(s)

World Health Organization - WHO -

Created on

Feb 13, 2013

Last modified

Dec 05, 2013

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Blood in sputum of phlegm or have you coughed blood (q6101)
File: WHS-Ghana_F5

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 4
Decimals: 2
Range: 1-5

Valid cases: 3911
Invalid: 27

Questions and instructions

Pre question

During the last 12 months, have you experienced any of the following…
For this set of questions, the interviewer must read out a series of symptoms and determine if the respondent had any of those symptoms in the last 12 months. The point of asking symptom-related questions is to screen those individuals who might have tuberculosis (TB). Because there could be a number of symptoms that characterise a given health condition, and because some symptoms may be common to different conditions, it is important that the interviewer probe for each symptom to see whether the respondent may have an active disease.

Literal question

During the last 12 months, have you had blood in your phlegm, or have you coughed blood?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	35	0.9%
5	No	3876	99.1%
Sysmiss		27

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Coughing blood, or having blood in the sputum or phlegm, is a symptom that is very specific to tuberculosis. If the respondent is unsure of the meaning of phlegm, explain that this is the substance spit out from a deep cough (or use another term in local colloquial language).