Open Case Studies - Mental Health in Youth

This project is based on a case study "Open Case Studies: Mental Health of American Youth" Wright, Carrie and Ontiveros, Michael and Jager, Leah and Taub, Margaret and Hicks, Stephanie C. (2020). https://github.com/opencasestudies/ocs-bp-youth-mental-health. Mental Health of American Youth.

Data is from the US National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

Table of Contents

1. Scraping survey data from NSDUH website

2. Wrangling data

3. Data visualisation - creating plots on:

   • Total rate of major depressive episodes (MDE) across time -> MDE_total
   • MDE rates based on age and gender differences -> MDE_age_gender
   • MDE rates based on racial/ethnic differences -> MDE_race
   • Total rate of MDE with severe impairment (MDES) across time -> MDES_total
   • MDES rates based on age and gender differences -> MDES_age_gender
   • MDES rates based on racial/ethnic differences -> MDES_race
   • Total rate of people reporting having an MDE and received treatment for depression -> treatment_total
   • MDE treatment rates based on age and gender differences -> treatment_age_gender
   • MDE treatment rates based on racial/ethnic differences -> treatment_race
   • Settings where youths are receiving treatment (total) -> plotMHS
   • Settings where youths are receiving treatment (subcategories) -> plotMHSS
   • Overall outcomes (total and gender differences) -> gender_outcomes
   • Overall outcomes (age differences) -> age_outcomes
   • Overall outcomes (race/ethnic differences) -> race_outcomes

4. Data analysis - Pearson's chi-squared test for independence

5. Summary - creating summary plot -> mainplot

6. Homework

   • Total rate of people reporting having an MDES and received treatment for depression -> MDES_treatment_total
   • MDES treatment rates based on age differences -> MDES_treatment_age
   • MDES treatment rates based on gender differences -> MDES_treatment_gender
   • MDES treatment rates based on racial/ethnic differences -> MDES_treatment_race