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NWPHO Health, Lifestyle and Wellbeing Survey Toolkit


Introduction / Notice

This website provides a collection of questions for lifestyle health surveys that may be suitable for a wide range of users. The areas of alcohol, smoking, food and diet, physical activity and general health and wellbeing are covered, and questions are taken from a wide range of relevant sources. These include the General Lifestyle survey, the Health Survey for England, the Scottish Health Survey, the Welsh Health Survey and the Northern Ireland Health and Social Wellbeing Survey.

Please note: this is a temporary website. The content will shortly become part of a larger site covering all aspects of health lifestyle surveys, produced through the Association of Public Health Observatories, and will be linked from here.

Each of the five topics covered in the lifestyle survey toolkit - Alcohol, Smoking, General health and wellbeing, Food and Diet, and Physical activity (listed in the topic tool bar above) - includes the following sections to help you choose questions for your survey:

Indicators

 

Lists key national targets relevant to the lifestyle topic.

Things to think about

 

Provides general support in using the questions from the surveys included in the toolkit, such as details of their methodologies and delivery methods. 

 

Also includes detailed printable PDF documents showing the use and appropriateness of each survey.

Recommended questions

Gives examples of recommended questions to suit particular delivery methods:

 

Self completion       Face-to-face       Telephone

Question bank 

Provides a full set (and a summary) of all relevant survey questions for each of the five lifestyle topics.

 

Questions are generally organised by key themes for each topic. The questions presented here are a guide rather than a definitive recommendation.