Bases for Action by the Federal Office for Health Education 1984

Topics: information on occupation and employment; arrangement of working hours with or without changing shifts; work on an assembly line; regular weekly working hours; work on Sunadys and holidays as well as on Saturdays; being on stand-by on weekends; short time work; frequency of overtime and actual total working hours per week; exercise of side jobs and taking care of occupational matters in leisure time; commuting time to work; wage or salary recipient; bonuses and piecework pay; characterization of actual and subjectively perceived stress at work; personal danger of accident at work as well as possibility of endangering others; possibility of causing greater property damage; frequency of personal work accidents; personal responsibility at work (scale); type and frequency of work supervision by others; perceived stress from being supervised; characterization of necessary psychological and social abilities at work; holding management positions and extent of span of control; frequency of work conflicts; interest in accepting additional responsibility; frequency and reason for change of job; health reasons for a change of job; duration of company employment; year of last change of occupation; limited fitness for work for health reasons; frequency and length of personal unemployment in the last 10 years; frequency of lay-offs in the company and perceived job security; judgement on development of professional career up to now and in the future; thoughts of change of job; work satisfaction (scale); changes of one´s own job situation in the last 3 years; possibilities to influence one´s own pace at work as well as arranging of work breaks or pauses; psychological effects of work on personal life; satisfaction with personal leisure time and one´s own organization of leisure time; preferred leisure activities; frequency of contact with friends and relatives; presence of a person to confide in; desire for more friends; memberships; participation in lectures and courses; most important stress and problems (scale); contacts with advice centers; eating habits; weight and height; current preferred tobacco products; use of cigarettes; age at first use of tobacco products; number of attempts to quit smoking or to cut down; non-smokers were asked about earlier smoking habits; number of smokers in household and attitude to prohibition of smoking at work; frequency, extent and reasons for use of alcohol; use of alcohol at work; reasons and effects of use of alcohol; information on health complaints and subjective assessment of personal condition of health; psychological self-characterization of feelings of personal responsibility and self-determination as well as latent fear and depression (scales to be filled out in writing); frequency of visits to the doctor and hospital stays; participation in cancer check-ups in the last 12 months; frequency of health resort stays; frequency and regularity of use of medication; use of medication during work and general attitude to use of medication (scale).

The following questions were also posed to the unemployed: reasons for giving up main occupational activity; search for a new job and perceived probability of success; obstacles to new employment; relationship with family (scale). The following additional questions were posed to women: division of typical housework between the spouses; frequency of house cleaning; degree of perceived opportunities for self-realization in marriage (written survey); degree of satisfaction with relation with partner (scale); consultation of outsiders with partnership problems; frequency of reading literature on partnership relations; frequency of thinking about partner problems and conflicts with partner; judgement on one´s own partner relation in comparison to others; conduct with partnership conflicts (scale); frequency of conflicts with partner and most frequent reasons for marriage conflicts; persons in need of care in the household; effective leisure time per day; judgement on the occupation of housewife (scale); length of vacation from housework; satisfaction with one´s own housework (scale); assumed attitude of husband to employment of married women; assessment of attitude of spouse to a female superior; daily time expended for housework; housework on Saturdays and Sundays.