SHARElife – Healthcare Module (English Version) - Cognitive Pretest

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The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of about 140,000 individuals aged 50 or older (around 380,000 interviews).
The subject of this pretest are newly developed questions of the healthcare module for the seventh wave of the German SHARE study.
The questions were tested via face-to-face cognitive interviews.

*Note: The items were tested in German. The items documented here are English translations of the original German wordings. The translations do not correspond exactly to the formulations in the English SHARE source questionnaire.*

Citation:

Neuert, C., Otto, W., Landrock, U., Adams, F., Disch, K., Gebhardt, S., & Menold, N. (2015): SHARElife – Healthcare Module (English Version). Cognitive Pretest. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

DOI:

10.17173/pretest33

Question No.	Pretesting Results	Type	Construct
1	Have you ever needed a medical treatment or to see a doctor but you did not because the costs were too high?	Single Question	Abandonment of medical service due to high costs
2	Please look at SHOWCARD 32. Please specify the periods in which you needed a medical treatment or to see a doctor but you did not because you could not afford it.	Single Question	Age during the time of abandonment due to high cost
3	Have you ever needed a medical treatment or to see a doctor but you could not because you had to wait too long?	Single Question	Abandonment of medical service due to long waiting time
4	Please look at SHOWCARD 32. Please specify the periods in which you needed a medical treatment or to see a doctor but you did not because you had to wait too long.	Single Question	Age during the time of abandonment due to long waiting time
5	Have you ever postponed a dentist’s visit to help you keep your living costs down?	Single Question	Postponing dental service due to keeping living costs down
6	Please look at SHOWCARD 32. Please specify the periods in which you postponed a dentist’s visit to help you keep your living costs down.	Single Question	Age during the time of postponing dental service due to high cost
7	Have you ever needed medication which you could not afford because of costs?	Single Question	Abandonment of medicine due to high cost
8	Please look at SHOWCARD 32. Please specify the periods in which you needed medication which you could not afford because of costs.	Single Question	Age during time of abandonment due to high cost

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