Scottish Health Survey: content review

Annex B: Questions

Please see below the questions asked as part of the review for information only. Questions 1-4 are introductory questions asked only once, whereas questions 5-20 are asked for each topic.

1) Please indicate whether you are responding as an individual or on behalf of your organisation.

• Individual
• Organisation

2) If you are responding on behalf of your organisation, please select the organisation you work for.

• Scottish Government
• Public Health Scotland
• Local Government
• Other

3) If you are responding on behalf of your organisation, please specify your team or department.

4) Please select the health topics you wish to provide feedback for.

• Accidents
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• Alcohol and drinking experiences
• Asthma
• Biological measurements
• Cardiovascular disease and use of services
• Chronic pain
• COVID-19
• CPR training
• Dental health and services
• Diet
• Discrimination and harassment
• Drugs
• Food insecurity
• Gambling
• General health and long-term conditions
• Mental wellbeing
• Parental history
• Physical activity
• Prescribed medicines and drug coding
• Respiratory
• Smoking
• Social capital and loneliness
• Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
• Stress at work
• Unpaid caring
• Vitamin supplements

5) Would you like to

• Retain the questions in this topic without any changes?
• Add new questions to this topic?
• Remove some of the existing questions in this topic?
• Replace the existing questions with alternative questions?

6) If you would like to retain the questions without any changes, please select why you want the questions to be retained without any changes.

• No/limited population level data available elsewhere
• Inform/evaluate public policy
• Inform local interventions
• Better allocate resources
• Monitor targets
• Monitor trends
• Validate other data sources
• Other

7) If you would like to add new questions or replace the existing questions, please describe the changes you propose and explain whether the questions have been tested or used in another survey.

8) If you would like to remove some of the existing questions, please specify which questions to remove.

9) If you would like to remove some of the existing questions, please select why these questions are not needed.

• Alternative sources available
• Questions out-of-data
• Data not being used
• Other

10) Do you require data at Health Board and/or Local Authority level?

See review paper for more information.

• Yes
• No
• I don't know

11) How frequently do you require information gathered by the survey on this topic?

Please note that if you require data at subnational level, the data needs to be collected annually. See review paper for more information.

• Annually
• Biennially
• 4-yearly
• One-off
• As it currently is
• Other

12) If you require information gathered by the survey annually, please select why you require data at this frequency.

• Monitor fast-changing indicators
• Health board and/or Local Authority level data required
• Need for annual reporting
• Other

13) What would be the impact on your area of work if this data was not collected in the Scottish Health Survey?

• No impact
• Some impact
• Major impact

14) If some or major impact, please describe the expected impact.

15) Is it important to link information on this topic to other health topics in SHeS?

• Yes
• No

16) If it is important to link information on this topic to other health topics in SHeS, which topics?

• Accidents
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
• Alcohol and drinking experiences
• Asthma
• Biological measurements
• Cardiovascular disease and use of services
• Chronic pain
• COVID-19
• CPR training
• Dental health and services
• Diet
• Discrimination and harassment
• Drugs
• Food insecurity
• Gambling
• General health and long-term conditions
• Mental wellbeing
• Parental history
• Physical activity
• Prescribed medicines and drug coding
• Respiratory
• Smoking
• Social capital and loneliness
• Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
• Stress at work
• Unpaid caring
• Vitamin supplements

17) Please explain why you need to be able to link these topics.

18) Is any of the information from this module available from any other source?

• Yes
• No

19) If the information is available from any other source, please state the alternative data sources.

20) If the information is available from any other source, please select why it is important to gather this information as part of the Scottish Health Survey.

• Link to other topics
• To ensure data availability due to bigger sample
• Health board and/or Local Authority level data available
• Validate other data sources
• Other