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

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.