Y-Check Referrals data codebook

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.00004763

Description

Data collected from 2,097 adolescents aged 10-19 years who gave informed consent, or informed assent with parental/guardian consent, to participate in a prospective intervention study to assess the feasibility and short-term impact of an adolescent health check-up programme in selected schools and community venues in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe between October 2022 to September 2023.

The Referrals dataset contains information on well-being conditions at referral attendance.

Data Codebook

The “YCheck_referrals_data_short” contains 13 variables, outlined below.

Variable Name Variable Label Answer Label Answer Code Variable Type
issue sought care for     Numeric
    mental health/suicide risk 1  
    suicidal ideation 2  
    alcohol 3  
    epilepsy 4  
    hearing 5  
    vision 6  
    imm 7  
    oral 8  
    physical 9  
    malnutrition 10  
    anaemia 11  
    hig 12  
    VMMC 13  
    HIV 14  
    family planning 15  
    STI 16  
pid Participant ID Open ended   String
Q02 Referral made to provider location and type     Numeric
    NGO | Harare 0  
    NGO | Harare 1  
    Government | Chitungwiza 2  
    Private | Chitungwiza 3  
    NGO/PVO | Chitungwiza 4  
    NGO/PVO | Harare 5  
    Government | Chitungwiza 6  
    NGO/PVO | Chitungwiza 7  
    NGO | Chintungwiza 8  
Q04c Sex     String
    Female Female  
    Male Male  
Q07a referral service attended     Numeric
    no 0  
    yes 1  
Q08 Provider type     String
    Government Government  
    NGO NGO  
    NGO/PVO NGO/PVO  
    Private Private  
Q09 Provider location     String
    Chitungwiza Chitungwiza  
    Harare Harare  
Q11 Adolescent accompanied by adult     Numeric
    no 0  
    yes 1  
Q12a Currency of service provided (USD/RTGS)     Numeric
    RTGS 0  
    USD 1  
Q13 Cost of care (number and currency) Open ended   String
Q13n Cost of care (number) Open ended   Integer
has_attendance_date Has a referral service provided date?     Numeric
    no 0  
    yes 1  
agecat_ref Age category at referral     Numeric
    10-14y 0  
    15-20y 1