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Agreement that medication prescribed for emotional or mental health problems helps control symptoms; the 2002 item uses a four-point scale and the 1998–2006 item uses a five-point scale with a neutral option.
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Latest: 3% answered “Disagree” in GSS: Psychiatric medication helps control symptoms, 2006.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Mental health medications help control symptoms | Mental health medications help control symptoms Please tell me how much you agree or disagree with the following statements about medicines prescribed by doctors that are intended to help people who are having problems with their emotions, nerves or their mental health.
A. These medications help people control their symptoms. Do you . . . Caveat: No neutral option, so neutral share is not comparable across items | similar | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree somewhat → Agree; Disagree somewhat → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |
| GSS: Psychiatric medication helps control symptoms | Psychiatric medication helps control symptoms Please tell me how much you agree or disagree with the following statements about medicines prescribed by doctors to help people who are having problems with their emotions, nerves or their mental health:
F. These medications help people control their symptoms. Caveat: Five-point scale with neutral midpoint; strength collapsed | equivalent | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Neither agree nor disagree → Neither agree nor disagree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |