Health Awareness - Lifestyle Questionnaire

Please state your occupation (If applicable):

Age:                                             

Gender (please tick appropiate):   Male              Female

Please tick the relevant boxes:

1.       How many days/nights a week do you work?

      N/A

      One

       Two

       Three

       Four

       Five

       Six

       Seven

2.       Does your job cause you stress?   Yes            No

a.       If yes, how often do you feel stressed in your job?

       Occasionally

       Most days

       Everyday

3.       How often do you have: ready meals, takeaways or eat out?

      Never

      Occasionally

      Once a week

      Most days

      Everyday

4.       Do you smoke?          Yes               No           

5.       Do you drink alcohol?     Yes             No              

a.        If yes, how often do you drink alcohol?

      Occasionally

      Most days

      Everyday

  

6.       Do you drink coffee?    Yes              No

a.        If yes, how often do you drink coffee?

      Occasionally

       Most days

       Everyday

7.       Do you engage in any physical activities?      Yes            No

a.        If yes, which is applicable to you?

      Gym

      Racket sport

      Team games e.g. football, rugby

       Golf

       Athletics

       Other

8.       What methods of unwinding are most applicable to you? (Tick one or more boxes)

       Alcoholic beverage

       Smoking

       A Bath

       Watching TV/ Film

       Playing on a games console

       Sport

       Other

Thank you for Participating in this questionnaire!

This questionnaire is designed to draw out the different lifestyle choices of people. Many studies have proven that lifesyle choices such as: smoking and eating unhealthily can lead to heart disease and potentially result in a heart attack. With this questionnaire I will be able to identify more specific lifestyle choices that I could include in my PSB advert, that will contribute to the heart attack the character in my advert will suffer. The sample was an oppertunity sample of ten people it consists of 5 females and 5 males; this is to enable myself the ability to compare results between genders. The age of the sample is again consistant with my target audience ranging between 40 - 65, although one of the participants was 78 I allowed this to get a futher depth into my research as elderly people are also at risk from heart disease and many are affected by heart attacks.

The most interesting findings of the collated data are:

• 4 of 5 males aged between 40-50 stated that they work 6 days a week.
• Of these men all 4 claimed that there job caused them stress most days
• 5 of 5 males stated that they drink coffee
• 3 of these men claimed to drink it most days
• 3 in 10 of the participants smoke.
• 5 of 5 males stated that they drink alcohol; in comparison to 2 of 5 females
• Only 2 of 5 males claim to participate in any physical activities 
• 7 of 10 participants stated that they eat ready meals, takeaways or go out to eat 'once a week'

In conclusion, this questionnaire was actually very usful to me as I managed to gage how often some people take certan lifestyle choices which in turn can damage you heart.  I intend to put some of the lifestyle factors from the questionnaire into my PSB in order to highlight the different aspects that can damage your heart. There are certain factors such as work stress and drinking alcohol that I will definately include in the PSB because of the results from this questionnaire and the fact that they are some of the biggest risk factors envolved with heart attacks.