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Interviewer, Nurse, Coding, Measurement and Editing Instructions UK Data Archive Study Number 7919 - Health Survey for England, 2014 Health Survey for England 2014 Interviewer project instructions P3427 Contents 1 The Health Survey for England 2014..............................1 1.1 How to use these instructions ................................................................................... 1 1.2 Overview of HSE 2014................................................................................................ 1 1.3 Our HSE client ............................................................................................................ 1 1.4 Fieldwork and sample design.................................................................................... 1 1.5 The interviewer visit................................................................................................... 2 1.6 The nurse visit............................................................................................................ 3 1.7 Interview length ......................................................................................................... 3 1.8 Interviewing children ................................................................................................. 3 2 New content for 2014.....................................................4 2.1 Learning difficulties ................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Planning for future care ............................................................................................. 4 2.3 Hearing difficulties..................................................................................................... 4 2.4 Mental health ............................................................................................................. 5 2.5 Use of services........................................................................................................... 5 2.6 Final question............................................................................................................. 5 3 Interview Documents .....................................................6 4 Nurse Liaison .................................................................7 4.1 Keep in touch ............................................................................................................. 7 4.2 When there’s no nurse visit… ................................................................................... 7 4.3 What the nurse needs to know .................................................................................. 7 5 Fieldwork timetable .......................................................8 6 Contacts ……………………………………………..9 1 The Health Survey for England 2014 1.1 How to use these instructions These instructions give an update on things that are new for the 2014 survey. They are designed to be used in conjunction with the HSE Interviewer Project Manual, which gives more detailed instructions about different aspects of the survey. 1.2 Overview of HSE 2014 HSE continues to be a vitally important study that provides National Statistics on many aspects of health. Results are made publicly available and are used by the government, NHS, researchers and many others. The information we collect helps to improve people’s health and identify priorities for future spending and future developments. New topics for the 2014 interviewer CAPI: Learning difficulties Planning for future care Hearing difficulties Attitudes associated with mental health Use of health services - some additional questions use of services associated with hearing and mental health problems. New for the 2014 nurse visit: Hearing test Adult urine test (replacing the saliva test for adults from 2013) Mental ill health and treatment Focus for 2014 Survey: Mental Health and Wellbeing. 1.3 Our HSE client The Health and Social Care Information Centre Their website says: ‘We are the trusted national provider of high quality information, data and IT systems for health and social care organisations so they can provide better services and improve health standards.’ Until April 2013, HSCIC was part of the NHS; now they are part of government but separate from the NHS or any department. We still use the NHS logo on the envelopes for our advance letters, because they use HSE data and it’s very important for them. 1.4 Fieldwork and sample design Fieldwork and sample design is the same as last year: • An assignment consists of 16 addresses • Fieldwork starts on the first of each month • You have approximately 6 weeks to complete your assignment NatCen Social Research | Health Survey for England 2014 1 • An important KPI is to visit all your addresses in the first 7 days • You will be given the target response rate for your point each month – our national target is 65% household response rate To get as full a picture as possible, we need high response rates for all the different stages of our survey – for instance for measurements, self completions, consent to linkage and nurse visits. 1.5 The interviewer visit This is what is included in the 2014 interview. New topics are shown in purple. Household questionnaire Household size, composition, relationships Smoking in household Accommodation tenure and number of bedrooms Car ownership Economic status / occupation of household reference person Learning difficulties* Household income The Interviewer visit Age (years) Module 0-1 2-4 5-7 8-9 10-12 13-15 16+ General health, longstanding illness • • • • • • • Fruit and vegetable consumption • • • • Self-reported height and weight • Personal care plans • Doctor diagnosed hypertension, diabetes • Planning for future care (30+) * • Use of health services* • Social care • Hearing* • Smoking •a •a •a • Drinking •a •a •a • Economic status, occupation, education • Ethnic origin, National identity • • • • • • • Self completion Learning Difficulties* •b • b • b • b • b General health today (EQ5D)* • General Health last few weeks (GHQ12)* • • Wellbeing (Warwick – Edinburgh Scale) • Mental health attitudes* • Physical Activity • Perception of weight • Sexual orientation, Religion • Measurements Height • • • • • • Weight • • • • • • • 2 NatCen Social Research | Health Survey for England 2014 a Smoking and drinking in self-completion for all aged 8-17 and some aged 18-24. b Completed by parent/guardian or carer 1.6 The nurse visit Everyone who is interviewed is eligible for a nurse visit. This is what the nurse visit includes in 2014. New topics are in purple. Nurse visit Age (years) Module 0-3 4 5-10 11-15 16+ Prescribed medicines • • • • • Nicotine replacement products • Blood pressure • • • Mental health questions* • Waist and hip circumference • • Saliva sample (cotinine) • • • • Urine sample* • Non-fasting blood samples (Total and HDL cholesterol, • glycated haemoglobin) Hearing test* • 1.7 Interview length The interview will last an average of around 60-65 minutes for a two person session, a little bit shorter for one adult, a little bit longer for three or four people. Also, as has been the case for the last couple of years, it is a little bit longer for people aged over 65, particularly if they have social care needs. The interview for children is very short. Apart from questions about general health, those aged 5+ are asked about fruit and veg – and of course we need their height and weight. If they are under 5 there are virtually no questions, so set expectations appropriately when you are setting an appointment. The nurse visit will last around 40 minutes on average for an adult – so considerably shorter than the interview. And you can tell participants that the nurse visit is very different, consisting mainly of measurements rather than questions. 1.8 Interviewing children We strongly recommend that you do not include children and adults in the same interview session. The child interview is very short, so it’s much better to get that completed before (or after) you’ve done the adult interview. Then the child won’t be asked to sit through the adult session. We have some new bracelets to offer children, as well as the sticker packs. NatCen Social Research | Health Survey for England 2014 3 2 New content for 2014 2.1 Learning difficulties There are few statistics available about how many people have learning difficulties, so the HSE will be finding this out. It is a relatively small proportion of the population, so we need a robust survey like the HSE to investigate. There are questions in the household questionnaire about whether anyone in the household has any learning difficulties. Then the self completion booklet asks each adult about whether they have learning difficulties. Parents will fill in a booklet for children aged 11-15. If there is someone in the household who is not able to take part in the interview because of learning difficulties, there is a (short) self completion for a responsible adult to complete on their behalf. The person asked to fill in this in will be ‘the person who would usually answer questions on that person’s behalf’. The questions have been used in a different survey, and therefore we have kept exactly the same wording. There is a detailed explanation in the household questionnaire of what we mean by learning difficulties. The questions make a distinction between specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, or more general learning difficulties. 2.2 Planning for future care Social care is already an important part of the HSE interview, and we have a new section of questions in 2014 to establish to what
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