Health Habits and Attitude to Health Questions (Efficiency Check 1979/1980)

Topics: satisfaction with leisure time; rough time budget for weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays specifying contacts; statements about family climate (scale); degree of perceived stress; use of medication and semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol in selected problem and stress situations (scale); conduct in stress situations; attitudes to smoking habits, weight problems, sleeping pills and tranquilizers, use of medication, medication to promote achievement, health occupations, medical check-ups as well as opportunities to organize leisure time (scale); information on health complaints and subjective assessment of personal condition of health; perceived stress by problems and feelings (scale); personal participation in medical check-ups and illnesses thus discovered; type and regularity of use of medication; purchase of medication with or without prescription; participation in group meals and judgement on this canteen fare; eating habits; weight as well as height; attitudes to various over-weight reducing methods; extent and reason for use of alcohol; interest in reducing one´s own use of alcohol; self-assessment of use of alcohol; situations of consciously doing without alcohol; preferred possibilities to influence children to reduce their use of alcohol; earlier or current smoking and preferred brand of cigarettes; age at starting to smoke; length of not smoking and reasons for doing without use of smoking products; number of cigarettes per day; attitude to different methods of breaking the nicotine habit; attempts to quit smoking; number of smokers in household; situations in which smoking is restricted or done without entirely; regular or flexible working hours; frequency of use of alcohol at work; environmental pollution at work; description of the job situation (scale); frequency of change of job; individual reaction to stress at work; possession of a telephone; participation in further education events.

The following questions were posed to non-smokers: method of quitting; health and other reasons doing without use of nicotine; perceived disturbance from smokers; frequency of passive smoking. The following questions were posed to parents with children: methods of influencing children to come to abstinence from smoking; fear of health impairments in the future; age threshold for use of alcohol and cigarettes as well as treatment with preparations to increase concentration and achievement, tranquilizers or sleeping pills; attitude to the model function of parents in the use of such medications and semi-luxury foods, tobacco and alcohol.