Health Conduct and Attitude to Health Questions (Efficiency Check 1976)

Degree of familiarity as well as judgement on health education actions.
Health-conscious conduct of the population and attitude to selected
health risk factors.

Topics: Interest in health-related information;
quality of topics relevant to health; meals on working days; judgement
on the group meal service; estimated daily intake of calories;
subjectively correct intake of nutrition components and intake of
individual nutrition elements; frequency of weighing; weight as well as
height; health complaints and possibilities of precautions against
selected health complaints; subjective assessment of personal condition
of health; health-conscious conduct; conscious behavior dangerous to
oneself; participation in medical check-ups and illnesses thus
discovered; participation in medical check-ups for children; use of
medications; purchase of medication with and without prescription;
reasons for not using up prescribed medication; knowledge of
medications not compatible with alcohol; use of household remedies; age
levels for medication and semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol;
knowledge of users of drugs and time of last use of drugs; knowledge
and use of advice centers; frequency and extent of consumption of beer,
wine, champagne and spirits; occasions for use of alcohol; knowledge of
health damages from use of alcohol; earlier and current use of tobacco
and preferred brand of cigarettes; age at starting to smoke; length of
not smoking and reasons for quitting smoking; knowledge of nicotine and
tar values of one´s own brand of cigarettes; number of smokers in
household and frequency of passive smoking; subjective disturbance by
passive smoking; health-relevant attitudes (scale) such as e.g.
attitudes to abortion, sterilization, sleeping pills and tranquilizers,
medication to enhance performance, psychological illnesses, venereal
diseases, good food and drink, consumption of alcohol, means of
contraception, birth planning, protective vaccinations, use of
medication and athletic activities; knowing or relationship with
disabled; type of disability; fear of disturbances harmful to health in
the future; familiarity, use and evaluation of activities of the
Bundeszentrale fuer gesundheitliche Aufklaerung {Federal Center for
Health Education}; subjectively adequate free time and satisfactory
organization of leisure time; sources of leisure time ideas; stress
from problems; subjectively adequate exercise with work and leisure
time; possession of telephone and car; housing conditions and
satisfaction with size of residence; noise disturbance of the residence
and access to a private yard.

Demography: age; sex; marital status;
religious denomination; school education; vocational training; further
education; occupation; employment; company size; household income; size
of household; composition of household; head of household; memberships.

Interviewer rating: floor of residence and presence of elevator; type
of building; residential area.