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Indicators for health education in Scotland; summary of findings from the 1996 Health Education Population Survey (HEPS)
| Contents: | Introduction The Health Education Population Survey Disease prevention Behavioural risk factors Stages of behaviour change Smoking Diet / nutrition Physical activity Mental health Accidents / safety Dental / oral health Sexual health Alcohol Drug misuse Conclusions References |
The Health Education Population Survey
The survey is commissioned by HEBS and conducted by the British MarketResearch Bureau (BMRB). It is carried out twice a year (March and September)from March 1996 using computer assisted personal interviews, with moresensitive information on topics such as mental health, sexual health and drugsobtained using self completion. Each survey wave involves interviews witharound 900 people aged 16-74 in mainland Scotland. A ‘rolling’ randomprobability sampling procedure is used which allows results to be combined fromconsecutive waves.
The topic areas covered by the survey are:
- disease prevention (coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, cancer andHIV/AIDS)
- smoking
- diet/nutrition
- physical activity
- mental health
- accidents/safety
- dental/oral health
- sexual health
- alcohol misuse
- drug misuse.
The questions included in HEPS were developed within a frameworkincorporating the five dimensions described above (see BOX).
| HEPS: FRAMEWORK FOR INDICATORS |
| Knowledge
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| Motivations
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| Skills
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| Behaviours
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| Health status
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This report presents a summary of the main indicators devised for each topicarea and gives baseline data for 1996 using combined results from the first twowaves of the survey conducted in March and September 1996. Interviews wereachieved with a total sample of 1813. The response rate was 72% of the eligiblesample.