Leeds Lifestyle Survey 2002
Synopsis:
The most recent survey to examine the lifestyle of Leeds residents
was performed in 1995 by the Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health
Authority. Since then national lifestyle data has been used to estimate
the lifestyle habits of the population of Leeds. Since the NHS is now
moving towards making health services more responsive to local needs (DoH
1997, 2001) with the development of PCTs it was decided that it was an
opportune time to conduct a lifestyle survey of the city.
The aim of the survey was to:
Investigate the prevalence of coronary heart disease lifestyle
risk factors in the population of Leeds, aged 16 to 75.
The survey will be repeated in 5 years time to monitor change
providing an indication of the success of health promotion
interventions.
Two survey methods were considered - face to face interviews and a
postal questionnaire. Face to face interviews may gain a higher response
rate and, if experienced interviewers perform the interviews we may be
more certain about the accuracy of the data collected. The main
disadvantage of face to face interviews is expense. Self administered
postal questionnaires have the advantage of reaching a large number of
people at a lower cost.
However, the response rate from postal surveys may be poor and the
accuracy of data cannot be guaranteed.
The initial mail out occurred on the 14th of February 2002 with a
reminder mail out containing a further questionnaire two weeks later.
699 of the postcodes were subsequently found to lie outside all the PCT
boundaries and were therefore excluded. Thus a total of 4,301
questionnaires were sent out to people within the PCT boundaries, a
total of 1,788 were returned giving a total response rate of 41.6%.
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