PSS

For generating this scale, several considerations had to be taken into account.

  1. Remove observations with missing data.
  2. Make sure that the questions were in a scale from 0-4.
  3. Revert the scoring for questions 3 and 4.

Once we have that, this is how the overall distribution of the scores look like:

The mean and other summary statistics for the score, with every community:

##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##   1.000   7.000   8.000   7.705   9.000  14.000

Standard Deviation:

## [1] 2.047451

Now let’s look at each community individually. The composite score:

For Question 1:

For Question 2:

For Question 3:

For Question 4:

Also, we might want to look at the percentages of the composite score per community:

For Colonia Agrarista:

##                3    5    6    7    8    9   10   11
## Proportion: 0.04 0.06 0.13 0.17 0.26 0.17 0.13 0.04

For Santa Ana Coatepec:

##                1    4    5   6    7    8    9   10   11   12
## Proportion: 0.02 0.14 0.03 0.1 0.15 0.27 0.15 0.07 0.03 0.03

For San Francisco Xochiteapan:

##                1    3    4   5    6    7   8    9   10   11   12   13   14
## Proportion: 0.01 0.01 0.06 0.1 0.09 0.11 0.3 0.16 0.06 0.03 0.03 0.01 0.01

For Colonia Flores Magon:

##                4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12
## Proportion: 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.15 0.35 0.17 0.11 0.04 0.04

Finally, a visual comparison of the distribution of that composite score for the four communities:

GAD

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale was simpler to generate, the only main consideration was to make sure to remove missing values. Here’s how the distribution of the scale looks, for all communities aggregated:

The mean and other summary statistics for the score, with every community:

##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##   0.000   0.000   2.000   1.626   2.000   6.000

Standard Deviation:

## [1] 1.610657

Now let’s look at each community individually. The composite score:

For Question 1:

For Question 2:

Also, we might want to look at the percentages of the composite score per community:

For Colonia Agrarista:

##                0    1    2   3    4    6
## Proportion: 0.39 0.12 0.29 0.1 0.06 0.04

For Santa Ana Coatepec:

## [1] "Proportions for Santa Ana Coatepec"
##                0    1    2    3    4    6
## Proportion: 0.46 0.17 0.29 0.05 0.02 0.02

For San Francisco Xochiteapan:

##                0    1    2    3    4    5    6
## Proportion: 0.21 0.22 0.38 0.05 0.06 0.01 0.06

For Colonia Flores Magon:

##                0    1    2    3    4    5    6
## Proportion: 0.24 0.11 0.36 0.04 0.09 0.04 0.11

Finally, a visual comparison of the distribution of that composite score for the four communities:

PHQ2

The Patient Health Questionaire-2 Scale was also simple to generate, the only main consideration was to make sure to remove missing values. Here’s how the distribution of the scale looks, for all communities aggregated:

The mean and other summary statistics for the score, with every community:

##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##   0.000   0.000   1.000   1.407   2.000   6.000

Standard Deviation:

## [1] 1.445388

Now let’s look at each community individually. The composite score:

For Question 1:

For Question 2:

Also, we might want to look at the percentages of the composite score per community:

For Colonia Agrarista:

##                0    1    2    3    5
## Proportion: 0.37 0.22 0.24 0.12 0.06

For Santa Ana Coatepec:

##                0    1    2    3    5
## Proportion: 0.47 0.26 0.17 0.05 0.05

For San Francisco Xochiteapan:

##                0    1    2   3   4    6
## Proportion: 0.28 0.27 0.21 0.1 0.1 0.04

For Colonia Flores Magon:

##                0    1    2    3    4    6
## Proportion: 0.28 0.17 0.35 0.07 0.11 0.02

Finally, a visual comparison of the distribution of that composite score for the four communities: