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Youth Well-Being: Strengthening mental health and human capital in a social programme for vulnerable young people in Colombia

Colombia, 2025 - 2026
DESS

Reference ID

10.16909-dataset-67

DOI

Producer(s)

Mauricio Avendano, Martha Escobar Lux, Fabio Idrobo Bonilla, Armando N. Meier, Omar Y. Vargas Rodriguez

Collections

Department of epidemiology and health systems (DESS)

Metadata

PHQ-9 scale - Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or thoughts of hurting yourself in some way (phq9_9)

Data file: Individual-level surveys dataset

Overview

Valid: 43408
Invalid: 32588
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
Question 9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or thoughts of hurting yourself in some way
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not at all 31887
73.5%
1 Several days 7752
17.9%
2 More than half the days 2301
5.3%
3 Nearly everyday 1468
3.4%
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.

Others

Notes
Topic: Standardised instrument : PHQ-9

Asked in survey wave(s): Baseline survey, Follow-up 1 survey, Follow-up 2 survey, Follow-up 3 survey

Reference/note: Original instrument: Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JBW (2001). The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. J Gen Intern Med 16(9):606–613. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x

Spanish/Colombian translation and validation: Colombia (primary care): Cassiani-Miranda CA, Cuadros-Cruz AK, Torres-Pinzón H, et al. (2021). Validity of the PHQ-9 for depression screening in adult primary care users in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed) 50(1):11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcp.2019.09.001
Colombia (university students, Rasch): Cassiani-Miranda CA, Scoppetta O, Barrios-Villadiego MA, et al. (2025). Construct validity of the PHQ-9 in university students in Colombia. Med Clín Soc 9(1):e521. https://doi.org/10.52379/mcs.v9.521
Study description in PDF

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