Table 2

Components and sources of the self-administered questionnaire used in the baseline survey of the CARLA Study

Topics of questionnaire modules
Source (reference, original study)

Health related behaviour/lifestyle factors
1. diet/nutritional habits – quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ)
2. alcohol use – binge drinking
1. adopted from EPIC [50]
2. adopted from HAPIEE [52]
Social networks
Modified version of Berkman-questionnaire (translation by J. Siegrist used in KORA/MONICA) [48,84,88,89]
Perceived security in neighbourhood environments before and after German re-unification in 1990
adopted and translated from HAPIEE [52,90-92]; similar questions in SHIP [82]
Health beliefs
Adopted from HAPIEE [52]
Health-related quality of life
Social functioning questionnaire SF 12 [93]
Job strain, effort-reward imbalance
Effort-reward imbalance questionnaire by J. Siegrist [57,58]
Depression scale
German translation of the CES-D depression scale by Kohlmann & Gerbershagen [94-96]

Abbreviations: same as in table 1

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