Oregon Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 1996

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Oregon Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 1996

Question List:

Q170. Within the past 12 months have you experienced any wheezing?
Q171. In the past 12 months, have you used any medication for breathing problems such as inhalers like Primatene Mist, Alupent, or Ventolin or taken pills such as Theo-Dur or Solbid?
Q172. Has a health care provider ever told you that you have asthma?
Q173. In the past 12 months, have you visited an emergency room or been hospitalized for asthma?

Firearms include pistols, shotguns, rifles, and other types of guns. In answering the questions, do not include BB guns, starter pistols, or guns that cannot fire.
Q208. Are any firearms now kept in or around your home? Include those kept in your home, in a garage, outdoor storage area, car, truck or other motor vehicle.
Q209. What is the main reason that there are firearms in or around your home?
Q210. During the past 30 days, have you had a firearm in or around your home at anytime that was both loaded and unlocked?
Q211. During the last 30 days, have you carried a loaded firearm on your person, outside of the home for protection against people?
Q212. In the past three years, have you attended a firearm safety workshop, class, or clinic?

Health Care Access

Influenza and Pneumonia

Injury Prevention Issues

Interpersonal Violence

VIOLENCE--defined as "situations in which a person hits, slaps, pushes, or otherwise strikes another person. This includes fights between friends or family members, physical or sexual assaults, and being hit by objects or with weapons. "Threats" of violence meaning, when a person says he or she will hurt you."
Q151. During the past 12 months, did anyone threaten to beat you up or threaten you with a knife, gun or some other weapon?
Q152. During the past 12 months, have you been subject to any physical violence?
Q153. During the past 12 months, how many different occasions have you been subject to physical violence?
Q154. On the most recent occasion, was the person who did this to you. . .?
Q155. & Q156. During the past 12 months, how many times was this same person involved in the other incidents you mentioned?
Q158. Before this last incident occurred did this same person ever threaten to beat you or threaten you with knife, gun or other weapon?
Q159. On the most recent occasion, were you injured?
Q160. Did you go to an emergency room, hospital, doctor, dentist, or other medical care facility to get treatment for this injury?
Q161. Was this last incidence reported to the police or other law enforcement agency?
Q162. There is help for domestic violence victims. Would you like the number?

R3. Summary Index of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Quality of Life

Sexual Behavior

Smokeless Tobacco Use

Women's Health (Mammograms and Pap Smears)

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