Health Practices and Attitude to Health Questions (Efficiency Check 1978)

Health conscious practices of the population and attitudes to selected
health risk factors. Degree of familiarity of health education actions
of the Federal Center.

Topics: Subjectively adequate free time and satisfactory organization
of leisure time; participation in lectures, courses and further
education events; burdens from problems (scale); personal living habits
and behaviors good for health and harmful to health; interest in
information relating to health; participation in group meals at work or
at place of training; attitudes to cafeteria meals; subjectively
correct nutrition; weight; shoe size; familiar diets and therapies
against overweight; personally conducting diets; outcome of these
diets; interest in diet courses; illnesses and health complaints;
possibilities for precaution with selected health complaints;
subjective assessment of personal condition of health; health-conscious
practices; advertisement test; degree of familiarity of selected
advertisements of the Federal Center; evaluation of the advertisements;
participation in medical check-ups by respondent as well as by his
children; successfully discovering illnesses through medical check-ups;
medical check-ups in which older persons should take part; regularity
of use of medication; self-treatment; type of medications acquired
oneself and prescribed; development of personal use of medications;
attitude to medical check-ups, use of medication, smoking,
health-conscious nutrition, the disabled, birth planning, family and
children (scales); frequency and extent of consumption of beer, wine,
champagne and spirits; occasions of use of alcohol; assessment of the
amounts of beer, wine and spirits harmful to health; plans for
reduction in use of alcohol; sticking to intentions in use of alcohol
and conduct of friends in this respect; interest in courses on
reduction in use of alcohol; self-classification of extent of use of
alcohol; use of tobacco products; preferred brand of cigarettes; length
and reasons for termination of use of tobacco products; method of
quitting; number of cigarettes smoked daily; age at starting use of
cigarettes; knowledge of nicotine and tar content of one´s own brand of
cigarettes; number of attempts to quit smoking; length of attempt to
quit; interest in quitting smoking; preferred method of breaking the
smoking habit; interest in courses on breaking the smoking habit;
number of smokers in household; perceived disturbance from passive
smoking; preferred places for a general smoking ban; desire for more
friends; boredom; attitude to abortion and sterilization; attitude to
use of medication; contraceptives used; venereal diseases; use of
drugs; particularly feared diseases; judgement on brochures relevant to
health; knowledge test of these brochures; place of receiving these
brochures; magazines read.

Demography: memberships; active or passive member in clubs; car
possession; head of household; sex; school education; age; marital
status; religious denomination; employment; honorary activity;
occupational position; area of business; company size; commuting times
to job; number of income recipients in household; household income;
size of household and composition of household; residential status;
residential furnishings; satisfaction with size of residence; fitness
equipment in household; access to a yard; noise disturbance of
residence; floor on which respondent lives; presence of an elevator;
type of building; degree of urbanization.