Suchergebnisse

The Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine was commissioned by the " Swiss Federal Surveys of Adolescents ch-x" to carry out a survey entitled "Survey on Personal Develoment, Health, Leisure and Sport" (this study will be referred to below as " ch-x 2002/03"). This was the second survey of the institute within this survey series. A first survey was conducted in 1993 on the topic of "Health" (Wydler et al., 1996). This survey is known under the old title of "Pedagogical Recruitment Exams, PRP 93". Part of the requirement of the Swiss Federal Surveys of Adolescents ch-x was the choice of the survey method. It is a questionnaire survey whose instruments could be used as self-explanatory as possible in the context of the interviews as well as in the postal survey of the representative sample. The framework for the design of the survey was a requirements resource model that includes external requirements and resources as well as various internal mental resources. At the same time, a range of health outcomes are identified that can be related to requirements and resources. In designing this survey, the authors were given a lot of leeway. However, the survey had to include the topic of sports. The survey instruments related to sports were transmitted to us by the Federal Office of Sport in Magglingen (chapter "Exercise and Sport"). This section was supplemented by instruments regarding leisure time (chapter "How to spend your free time") and questionnaires on body perception and body concepts (chapter "Body Experiences and Beauty"). Another aspect was to capture time trends of important determinant factors. The survey context of the 1993 survey was largely identical to the present one, allowing for the recording of time trends due to a repeated cross-sectional survey.