Proposed HWISE/IWISE scale module to capture severity, adaptation and resilience behaviours associated with water insecurity experiences using the original 4-week recall period
| PROMPT: Next, I want to ask you about different issues related to water that you may have experienced in the past 4 weeks. | ||||
| Quantitative items | Qualitative items (short response) | |||
| Scale item | Experience item and scoring | Severity item and scoring | Adaptation item | Resilience item |
| Worry | In the past 4 weeks, how often did you worry you would not have enough water for all of your needs? Never (0 times) (0) Rarely (1–2 times) (1) Sometimes (3–10 times) (2) Often (more than 10 times) (3) Don’t know (98) Missing (99) | When this happened, how disruptive was it in your daily life? Not at all (1) Somewhat disruptive (2) Very disruptive (3) | When this happened, what did you do differently, if anything, and how did it help? Enumerator training should emphasise discerning between buffering behaviours (adaptation) vs negative externalities (maladaptation) | Will this action reduce the likelihood of worrying about water in the future, and why? Enumerator training should emphasise discerning between perceptions of resilience vs vulnerability |
| Repeat for remaining scale items | ||||