Which components of health (care) behavoir would you recommend for a survey with people with a rather health-conscious lifestyle?
Would you e.g. add questions about recreation or stress and coping to the "usual" components such as "smoking", "sports" etc.?
Do you know any studies using appropriate survey items?
Thanks in advance for your support!
Hi! Just a couple of things I'd think are interesting for surveying people with a rather healthy lifestyle. I would add items about "mental resilience", such as social skills, cognitive skills, delay of gratification (because living a healthy lifestyle means you have to be able to delay gratification, e.g., I am allowed to eat what i want AFTER my work out), stress management, maybe a brief personality questionnaire? Hope that gave you some ideas!
Hello Anna
This is an interesting perspective; regarding your second question - yes - I feel that if you widen the scope of the questioning, this would encourage a more holistic response.
In response to your third question - have you seen the following papers?
Dür, M., Steiner, G., Fialka-Moser, V., Kautzky-Willer, A., Dejaco, C., Prodinger, B., ... & Stamm, T. A. (2014). Development of a new occupational balance-questionnaire: incorporating the perspectives of patients and healthy people in the design of a self-reported occupational balance outcome instrument. Health and quality of life outcomes, 12(1), 45. - - particularly see Table 2
There are also possible ideas in:
Segall, A., & Goldstein, J. (1989). Exploring the correlates of self-provided health care behaviour. Social Science & Medicine, 29(2), 153-161.
Wardle, J., & Steptoe, A. (2003). Socioeconomic differences in attitudes and beliefs about healthy lifestyles. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 57(6), 440-443.
Dutta-Bergman, M. J. (2004). Health attitudes, health cognitions, and health behaviors among Internet health information seekers: Population-based survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(2).
Jayanti, R. K., & Burns, A. C. (1998). The antecedents of preventive health care behavior: An empirical study. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 26(1), 6-15.
Good luck with this - I shall follow your question and subsequent answers with interest
Mary
I would look at this differently. What do you want to know? What are your hypotheses?
My mentor always added another question--So once you know this who cares? When you can answer these questions clearly you know where to look.
We have just started out on this subject and I was looking for ideas, that we have not considered so far. I found some inspiring aspects in your answers - thank you all very much!
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