joint strategic needs assessment foundation profile - JSNA

Interative Hull Atlas: www.hullpublichealth.org/Pages/hull_atlas.htm More information: www.jsnaonline.org and www.hullpublichealth.org
Figure 237: Frequency of feeling sad in young people, 2008-09
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Males Females
School year Gender
All of the
time
Most if the
time
Some of
the time
Not much
of the time
Rarely or
never
10.9.3.3 Mental Health Index and Health Utility Index Emotional Health Score
The Social Capital Surveys conducted during 2004 and 2009 and the adult Health and
Lifestyle Survey undertaken during 2007 collected information on the Mental Health
Index (MHI). The Mental Health Index is derived from five questions from the SF-36
questionnaire (a frequently used questionnaire to assess physical and mental health:
„short-form‟ with 36 questions). The five questions assessing mental health form a score
which ranges from 5 to 30 with a higher score denoting better mental health. A
transformed score can also be calculated with the difference being a change to the scale
(0-100). Further information can be found in the reports produced for the Social Capital
Surveys and the Health and Lifestyle Survey reports 2007 (main survey report involving
4,086 residents of Hull who were representative of Hull‟s population in terms of age,
gender and geography and the Black and Minority Ethnic group survey report involving
1,163 residents of Hull). All these reports are available on our website
www.hullpublichealth.org.
From the 2009 Social Capital Survey, the median mental health transformed score was
80 (denoting that half of survey responders had a score of 80 or more and half had a
score of 80 or lower), although higher in men (85). Four in ten (42.0%) of men had a
score of 86-100, compared with 30.6% of women, and just over one-quarter (26.0%) of
women scored 0-60 compared with 18.1% of men. Older respondents scored more
highly than the young, with a median value of 85 in those aged 65 years and over (and
with 43.7% scoring 86-100) compared with a median score of 80 in those aged below 65
years (with 36.2% of those aged 16-24 scoring 86-100). Medians were the same (80)
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Foundation Profile – Hull Health Profile: Release 3. March 2011. 671