Study title

Knowledge and conduct in the area of health as well asproblems of health education of 6 - 10 year-old children from the view of teachers. Topics: personal interest in health questions; preferred sources of information about health questions; assessment of personal knowledge about health matters; self-assessment of health-conscious way of life; personal activities on preservation of health; satisfaction with personal condition of health and condition of health of relatives and schoolchildren; level of health expectations; personal health complaints; work satisfaction; contentment with life; greatest problems; obvious health problems of school children; educational goals; appropriate age for the start of health education influence on children; judgement on the interest and knowledge of schoolchildren in health questions; judgement on health-conscious habits of children; preferred methods for health education; assessment of personal health education abilities; preferred measures to increase health education competence of parents; attitude to a school subject ´health education´; actual and desired number of monthly hours for health education; detailed determination of health education topics actually taught and considered desirable in the different school years; preferred means of instruction on health education; type of control of instruction success; expected effectiveness of this survey; detailed questionnaire evaluation. Nearly all the above-mentioned topics were surveyed in the form of scales. Demography: age; sex; school year; marital status. Also encoded were: ZIP (postal) code; city size; identification of interviewer and a number of indices.