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Components and sources of the self-administered questionnaire used in the baseline survey of the CARLA Study |
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| Topics of questionnaire modules |
Source (reference, original study) |
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| 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] |
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Abbreviations: same as in table 1 | |
Greiser et al. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2005 5:33 doi:10.1186/1471-2261-5-33 |
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