The SMILE study: a study of medical information and lifestyles in Eindhoven, the rationale and contents of a large prospective dynamic cohort study

Table 1 concepts measured in the SMILE questionnaires

	Adults	Adolescents	55+
Gender	X	X	X
Age	X	X	X
Age father/mother		x
Civil state	X		X
Living arrangement	X	X	X
Length	X	X	X
Weight	X	X	X
Ethnicity	X	X
Religion	X	X
Work situation/schoolgoing	X	X	X
Sick leave	X
Occupational level [20]	X		X
Educational level	X	X	X
Educational level partner			X
Educational level father/mother			X
Income	X	X	X
Appreciation of income [21]			X
Material deprivation [22]			X
Control beliefs: Self-efficacy (Sherer,1982) [23] [24, 25]	X	X
Control beliefs: mastery [26]			X
Health locus of control (Halfens, 1985) [27]	X	X
Importance of appearance	X
Perceived value of health	X	X
Satisfaction with life domains	X
Self-esteem (Rosenberg,1989) [28]	X	X
Values [29]	X
Coping (UCL) [30, 31]	X	X
Personality (Big 5) [32]
Life-events (MAS)	X	X
Changes due to health problems	X	X
Perceived limitations due to illness	X	X
Social support (SSl 12-I) [33, 34]	X	X
Social network	X	X
Social inadequacy [35]			X
Hostility [36, 37]			X
Neuroticism [38]			X
Rebeliousness [39]			X
Autonomy			X
Hours of sleep	X	X
Sunbathing and protection	X	X
Alcohol	X	X
Smoking	X	X
Physical activity (SQUASH) [40]	X	X
Leisure time activity	X	X
Nutrition	X	X
Use of health care facilities	X	X
Anxiety and depression (HADS) [41–43]	X		X
Depression (CES-D) [44, 45]		X
Psychosomatic complaints (VOEG) [46, 47]	X	X
Locomotor complaints (Hildebrandt)	X	X
Pregnancy	X
Fatigue (CIS) [48]	X	X
Self-rated health	X	X
Quality of life [49]	X	X
Health insurance	X
Attitude towards health financing	X
Attitude towards the Dutch society	X
RAND-36 [50, 51]			X
Global limitation indicator			X
ADL (GARS [52]/Frenchai [53])	X
Quote [54]	X

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