Health Habits and Attitude to Health Questions (Efficiency Check 1975)

Health consciousness and health habits. Use of Semi-luxury foods,
tobacco and alcohol. Degree of familiarity and use of brochures from
the Bundeszentrale fuer gesundheitliche Aufklaerung {Federal Center for
Health Education}. Topics: satisfaction with leisure time; rough
leisure time budget for weekdays; vacation in the last year; length of
vacation; a portion or the entire year´s vacation; leisure activities
on working days as well as on Sundays and holidays; wishes for
information on health questions; degree of familiarity and judgement on
importance of health education actions; type of health complaints in
the last four months; general judgement on personal condition of health
(scale); personal measures to maintain good health; observing one´s own
health; frequency of visits to a pediatrician, a general practitioner
as well as specialists in the last three months; frequency of purchases
of medications with and without prescription; over the counter
medication purchased; participation in medical check-ups; subject area
of the doctor conducting the medical check-up; positive or negative
diagnosis in the medical check-up; participation in medical check-ups
for children and their outcomes; characteristics of persons with
´enviable good health´; frequency of weighing; weight; height;
knowledge about the basic material of human nutrition and knowledge of
foods containing much protein, many carbohydrates and hidden fats;
familiarity of the term Mischkost {balanced diet}; participation in
group meals and judgement on these meals; attitude to calorie
information on food packages and menus in restaurants; knowledge about
the consequences of overweight; attitudes to the topic nutrition and
food (scale); daily use of alcohol; frequency of ´being inebriated´ in
the last fourteen days; occasions at which one drinks a lot; use of
tobacco products; earlier use of tobacco products; time period of doing
without tobacco; procedure at quitting smoking; number of cigarettes
smoked each day; inhaling; desire to quit smoking; number of attempts
to quit smoking; duration of the most successful attempt to quit
smoking; procedure at attempting to quit smoking; perceived annoyance
from smoking by other persons; frequent stay in areas where others are
smoking a lot; attitude to the topic exercise and sport (scale);
definition of the terms handicapped, physically handicapped, mentally
handicapped and psychologically sick person; use of contraceptives and
type of method used; utilization of and willingness to utilize advice
centers for family questions as well as questions of genetic health;
assumed interests as well as problems of old people; health and
psychological problems particularly feared for one´s health future;
utilization of an advice center or a treatment center for mental
illness by respondent or a family member; attitude to medications,
birth planning, sex education, mental and psychological illnesss
(scale); degree of familiarity of the individual education brochures
and advisers and information pamphlets of the Bundeszentrale fuer
gesundheitliche Aufklaerung; information whether these brochures were
read or glanced at and whether advice from them was used; degree of
familiarity of the various symbols, symbol figures, newspaper
advertisements and posters of the Federal Center; familiarity of the
telephone information service on current health problems; utilization
of and judgement on this information service of the Federal Center;
presence at home in the last seven weekdays; weekday of interview;
possession of a telephone.