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| ==== Adult General Health ==== | ==== Adult General Health ==== |
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| Continuing from childhood, study members have been asked about accidents and hospital admissions. Visits to their GP are also recorded and days off work due to sickness in the previous year.<html><br></html> | Continuing from childhood, study members have been asked about accidents and hospital admissions. Visits to their GP have been recorded at some data collections, as well as days off work due to sickness in the previous year.<html><br></html> |
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| Early adult questionnaires did not ask a 'general' health question (with the exception of [[questionnaires:1972|1972]] (26 years). Instead, multiple indicators of health over the life course and especially information on recurrent illness were collected. In [[questionnaires:1977|1977]] (31 years) study members were asked specifically about rheumatism and back pain and also headaches.<html><br></html> | Early adult questionnaires did not ask a 'general' health question (with the exception of [[questionnaires:1972|1972]] (26 years)). Instead, multiple indicators of health over the life course and especially information on recurrent illness were collected. In [[questionnaires:1977|1977]] (31 years) study members were asked specifically about rheumatism and back pain and also headaches.<html><br></html> |
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| In [[questionnaires:1982|1982]], [[questionnaires:1989|1989]], [[questionnaires:1999|1999]] and [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]] a more detailed list of ailments were asked about. In [[questionnaires:1989|1989]] and [[questionnaires:1999|1999]] study members were asked to recall their first and most recent experiences of the ailments. In [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]] study members were asked to recall all experiences of the ailments since 2006. <html><br></html> | In [[questionnaires:1982|1982]], [[questionnaires:1989|1989]], [[questionnaires:1999|1999]] and [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]] a more detailed list of ailments were asked about. In [[questionnaires:1989|1989]] and [[questionnaires:1999|1999]] study members were asked to recall their first and most recent experiences of the ailments. In [[questionnaires:2015|2014-16]] study members were asked to recall all experiences of the ailments since 2006. <html><br></html> |
| === Obtaining the adult general health standard variables === | === Obtaining the adult general health standard variables === |
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| * You can obtain a list of the standard topic variables to use in an NSHD data sharing request by selecting the link at the end of this page.\\ | * You can obtain a list of the standard topic variables to use in an NSHD data sharing request by selecting the link below.\\ |
| * The XML version of the link can be sent to the LHA as part of a data sharing request.\\ | |
| * Simply use your browser's //Save As// facility to save the list of variables to a file on your computer.\\ | |
| * You can then [[mrclha.swiftinfo@ucl.ac.uk|email]] the XML version to us in support of your application, or when you fill in the [[nshd:forms|data access application form]] and it asks which variables you need, mention the 'adult general health standard basket' along with any others. | |
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| **Please Note** that the adult general health standard basket only contains very few summary variables, with no detail on the participants' health in middle age. Adult general health is an extremely broad subject, with data on many different conditions and symptoms, so you are strongly advised to investigate this subject in more detail on [[skylark:skylark|Skylark]]. | **Please Note** that the adult general health standard basket only contains very few summary variables, with no detail on the participants' health in middle age. Adult general health is an extremely broad subject, with data on many different conditions and symptoms, so you are strongly advised to investigate this subject in more detail on [[skylark:skylark|Skylark]]. |
| [[http://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/Sparrow/search/html/keyword/mrepo:topics:adultgeneralhealth | HTML version of the standard variables to view]] | [[http://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/Sparrow/search/html/keyword/mrepo:topics:adultgeneralhealth | HTML version of the standard variables to view]] |
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| [[http://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/Sparrow/search/xml/keyword/mrepo:topics:adultgeneralhealth | Download the XML for the adult general health standard basket]]<html></b></html> | |
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