Mental Health Measures in FF
1-year Survey
Thank you to Michelle De Klyen and Marilyn Sinkewicz for slides and syntax
Mental Health Measures
• For Both Mothers and Fathers
– From the CIDI (Composite International
Diagnostic Interview) Short Form
• Major Depressive Episode (scale= 0 – 7),
diagnosis (scale>=3)
• General Anxiety Disorder (scale= 0 – 13),
diagnosis (scale>=9)
– Drug & Alcohol Use & Abuse
– Substance Abuse Problem
Major Depression (Method 1)
• Felt sad or depressed for at least two weeks
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• Feelings lasted most or all day
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• Feelings felt almost every day or every day
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• At least 3 of these symptoms:
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Lost interest in things
Feel more tired than usual
Gained or lost 10 or more lbs. without trying
Trouble falling asleep
Trouble concentrating
Feel worthless
Think a lot about death
Major Depression (Method 2)
• Lost interest in things for at least two weeks
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• Feelings lasted all or most of the day
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• Feelings felt almost every day or every day
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• At least 3 of these symptoms:
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Feel more tired than usual
Gained or lost 10 or more lbs. without trying
Trouble falling asleep
Trouble concentrating
Feel worthless
Think a lot about death
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Worried, tense or anxious for 6 months or more
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• Worry stronger than in other people
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• Worry most days
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• (Worry about more than one thing OR Have different worries
at the same time)
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• (Difficult to stop worrying OR Often worry so strong could not
put out of mind OR Often difficult to control worry)
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• At least 3 of these symptoms:
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Resless
Keyed up
Easily tired
Difficulty concentrating
More irritable than usual
Tense, sore or aching muscles
Have trouble falling asleep
Substance Use
• Alcohol
– Did you drink in past month
– # of Days had 5 or more drinks in past month
– Abuse = 4 or more times/ month
• Marijuana
– Did you smoke in past month
– How often (every day, nearly every day, several times/month, less than
several times/month
– Abuse = several times/month or more
• Hard Drugs (cocaine, crack, speed, LSD, heroin, other)
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Did you use in past month
How often
Abuse = several times/month or more
Any use =yes to any in past month
• Substance Abuse Problem (since child’s birth), Yes to any
– Drugs/drinking interfered w/managing daily activities
– Drugs/drinking interfere w/personal relationships
– Seek/got help for drugs/drinking
Mothers’ Mental Health at 1yr.
Follow Up
% w/Diagnosis
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Fathers’ Mental Health at 1Yr.
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