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Table 2 Components and sources of the self-administered questionnaire used in the baseline survey of the CARLA Study

From: Cardiovascular disease, risk factors and heart rate variability in the elderly general population: Design and objectives of the CARdiovascular disease, Living and Ageing in Halle (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]

  1. Abbreviations: same as in table 1