Anxiety {lordif} | R Documentation |
A Measure of Anxiety
Description
The data contain responses given by 766 people sampled from a general population to the PROMIS Anxiety scale (http://www.nihpromis.org)
composed of 29 Likert-type questions with a common rating scale (1=Never, 2=Rarely, 3=Sometimes, 4=Often, and 5=Always).
Usage
data(Anxiety)
Format
A data frame with 766 observations on the following 32 variables.
age
- 0=younger than 65 and 1=65 and older
gender
- 0=Male and 1=Female
education
- 0=some college or higher and 1=high school or lower
R1
- I felt fearful
R2
- I felt frightened
R3
- It scared me when I felt nervous
R4
- I felt anxious
R5
- I felt like I needed help for my anxiety
R6
- I was concerned about my mental health
R7
- I felt upset
R8
- I had a racing or pounding heart
R9
- I was anxious if my normal routine was disturbed
R10
- I had sudden feelings of panic
R11
- I was easily startled
R12
- I had trouble paying attention
R13
- I avoided public places or activities
R14
- I felt fidgety
R15
- I felt something awful would happen
R16
- I felt worried
R17
- I felt terrified
R18
- I worried about other people's reactions to me
R19
- I found it hard to focus on anything other than my anxiety
R20
- My worries overwhelmed me
R21
- I had twitching or trembling muscles
R22
- I felt nervous
R23
- I felt indecisive
R24
- Many situations made me worry
R25
- I had difficulty sleeping
R26
- I had trouble relaxing
R27
- I felt uneasy
R28
- I felt tense
R29
- I had difficulty calming down
Source
http://www.nihpromis.org
References
PROMIS Cooperative Group. Unpublished Manual for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Version 1.1. October, 2008: http://www.nihpromis.org
Examples
data(Anxiety)
## maybe str(Anxiety) ; plot(Anxiety) ...
[Package
lordif version 0.1-4
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