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GENERAL INFORMATION

Name Busselton Health Study
Acronym BHS
Last update 09/14/2009

Principal investigator

Lyle Palmer (Prof/Director)
Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UWA

Contacts

Lyle Palmer (Prof/Director)
Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UWA
Crawley, WA 6009
Phone: 0061 8 6488 6729
Email: lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail
Matt Knuiman (Prof. / Head of School)
School of Population Health, UWA
Crawley, WA 6009
Phone: 0061 8 6488 1250
Email: matthew.knuiman@uwa.edu.auMail

Websites

Funding agencies

  • The Great Wine Estates of the Margaret River region of Western Australia
  • Healthway, Western Australia
  • Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation

BACKGROUND

The residents of the town of Busselton, a coastal community in the south-west of Western Australia, have been involved in a series of health surveys since 1966. To date over 16, 000 men, women & children of all ages have taken part in the surveys and have helped contribute to our understanding of many common diseases and health conditions.

OBJECTIVES

The aims are:
1. To study the prevalence of common diseases in an Australian community
2. To assess the range and variation of a large number of clinical and laboratory variables in a natural population
3. To provide a community service in the detection, treatment and prevention of disease and in the education of the population
4. To conduct longitudinal surveys for the study of risk factors related to health and disease
5. To study mortality from specific diseases in an Australian population and to define the usefulness of risk factors in predicting such mortality

Topics of interest

  • Yes Broad approach with no specific topic of interest
  • No Target specific topics of interest (health outcomes, health determinants, etc.)

METHODS

Legend Yes No Unknown

General design

Study design Cross-sectional prevalence
Type of participants Individuals
Target or final number of participants 5891
Target or final number of DNA 5891

Participant selection / Characteristics of the population

Selection criteria

Yes Age Minimun: 18 years   
Yes Country of residence Australia (Busselton)

Recruitment procedures

All adults on the electoral roll for Busselton Shire were eligible and approached to participate.

Data Sources

  Cross-sectional Repeated/continuous
Yes Questionnaires to participants/respondents Yes Yes
Yes Direct physical measures Yes Yes
Yes Biological samples Yes Yes
Yes Medical paper
Yes Electronic databases
No Genealogical records  

Follow up procedures

No information available

Baseline principal variables of interest

Health information

  • Yes Diseases history - ICD-10
  • Yes Medication intake
  • Yes Familial disease history
  • No Early life
  • Yes Women's health
  • No Quality of life

Physical / Biochemical measures

Yes Body structure measures Yes Biochemical measures
Yes Body function measures  

Sociodemographic Characteristics

Yes Birth location Yes Parents birth location
No Ethnicity/Race Yes Gender
Yes Marital status Yes Date of birth

Socioeconomic Characteristics

No Education level No Income
No Working status  

Life habits / Behaviours

Yes Physical activity Yes Smoking / Tobacco Use
Yes Nutrition Yes Alcohol intake

Physical environment

Yes Passive smoking No Mobile phone use

Sample management

Biological samples

Yes Blood No Buccal cells
No Cord blood No Tissues
No Saliva No Urine
Yes Other (Serum)

Biological samples format

  Fresh Frozen Dried (paper) Other Specification
Blood No Yes No No
Other No Yes No No Yes (Serum)

Genome-Wide Association (GWA) analyses

  • Yes Already or currently generating GWA data. Approximate number of participants : 1468

GOVERNANCE

Legend Yes No

Allow access to data or samples to external researchers

Yes Data (questionnaire-derived, measured…)
Yes Biological samples

STATUS

Current status

Phase Start End
Preparation phase/Pilot 1994 1995
Recruitment / initial data collection 1994 1995
Follow-up of participants 1994 1995
Study ended   1995
Current number of participants recruited 5891
Current number of collected DNA samples 5891

AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS

  Document type Availability
1 General study protocol
2 Specific protocols/procedures (data collection, samples management, etc.) lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail
3 Questionnaires lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail
4 Consent forms lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail
5 Pamphlet / project description lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail
6 Governance / ethics documentation lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail

PUBLICATIONS AND RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION

Publication url

http://bsn.uwa.edu.au/bsnpub.htmExternal


General Information

Name Busselton Survey 1994-95
Last update 03/12/2010
Version or reference year 1994-95
Year interval 1994 to 1995

Contact

Lyle Palmer (Prof/Director)
Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UWA
Crawley, WA 6009
Phone: 0061 8 6488 6729
Email: lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail

Information on validity

Available from Professor Matthew Knuiman.

Methods

Legend Yes No

Respondent

  • Yes Participant
  • Yes Proxy (Generally participant, if not partner/parent/caregiver.)

Administration environment

  • No Over the phone
  • Yes Hospital, clinic, university or recruitment center
  • No Respondent / Proxy residence

Administration mode

  • No Auto administered
  • No Auto administrated with face to face validation by trained personnel
  • Yes Administrated by trained personel / Physician

Administration format

  • Yes Paper questionnaire
  • No Computerized

Administration language

  • English

Documents

Available Format

  • Adapted questionnaireWeb page
  • BHS_Q1995webPDF
  • BSN_data_dictionaryExcel

NOTICE: HTML document format may differ slightly from the actual questionnaire. Please refer to the original PDF document for exact reproduction.

General Information

Name Busselton Survey 1994-95
Number of Question Blocks 45

Questionnaire and Question Block List

Click on the View block to see the block of questions related to a domain or a group of domains.
Block 1 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Current Residence
Block 2 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject age / birth date
Block 3 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Gender
Block 4 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Household Status / Subjet Household Status
Block 5 View block
  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures / Biological Occupational Exposures / Others
  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures / Chemical Occupational Exposures / Others
  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures / Chemical Occupational Exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
Block 6 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's birth location
Block 7 View block
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Residential History
Block 8 View block
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239)
Block 9 View block
  • Body structures / Anthropometric structures / Anthropometric measures / Weight
Block 10 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Caffeine
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Salt and Food Supplement
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Beverages (other than water or alcohol)
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Fat Intake
Block 11 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Fat Intake
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Milk products
Block 13 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Meat, Eggs, Fish and Alternatives
Block 14 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Cereals, Bread, Starches
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Vegetables and Fruits
Block 15 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Fat Intake
Block 16 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Cereals, Bread, Starches
Block 17 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Alcohol use
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Cereals, Bread, Starches
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Milk products
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Salt and Food Supplement
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Sweets, Baked goods
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Nutritional Behaviours and Perception of Nutritional Habits
Block 18 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Nutritional Behaviours and Perception of Nutritional Habits
Block 19 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Alcohol use
Block 20 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Tobacco use
Block 21 View block
  • Physical Environment / Environmental exposures / Chemical environmental exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures / Chemical Occupational Exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
Block 22 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Physical activity / Activities/Exercise and Frequency
Block 23 View block
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Sleep Behaviours
Block 24 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
Block 25 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
Block 26 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
Block 27 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
Block 28 View block
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Block 29 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the nervous system
Block 30 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
Block 32 View block
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen
Block 33 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the digestive system
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Digestive and Hepatobiliary Tract
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Cardiovascular system (C)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Dermatologicals (D)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Musculo-skeletal system (M)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Sensory organs (S)
Block 34 View block
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the digestive system
Block 35 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the digestive system
Block 36 View block
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Block 37 View block
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Musculoskeletal System
Block 38 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the nervous system
Block 39 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
Block 40 View block
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Genito urinary system and sex hormones (G)
Block 41 View block
  • Health Information / Reproductive history / Parity/Gravidity
Block 42 View block
  • Health Information / Women's health / Menopause
  • Health Information / Women's health / Menstruation
Block 43 View block
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Genitourinary System
Block 44 View block
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
Block 45 View block
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)
Block 46 View block
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject age / birth date
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject's Relatives Age / Birth Date
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's birth location
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's family's birth location
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Kinship
Block 47 View block
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Reproductive history / Number of children
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject's Relatives Age / Birth Date
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's family's birth location

General information

Name Physical and cognitive measures
Last update 09/14/2009
Collected at phase Baseline
Year interval 1994 to 1995

Contacts

Lyle Palmer (Prof/Director)
Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UWA
Crawley, WA 6009
Phone: 0061 8 6488 6729
Email: lyle.palmer@uwa.edu.auMail

Physical and cognitive measures collected

Legend Yes No

BODY STRUCTURES

ANTHROPOMETRIC STRUCTURES

Anthropometric measures

Yes Weight

Yes Height

Yes Standing height

Yes Body circumferences

Yes Waist circumference

Yes Hip circumference

BODY FUNCTIONS

FUNCTIONS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS

Functions of the cardiovascular system

Yes Blood pressure

Functions of the respiratory system

Yes Respiratory functions (FEV, FVC)

Administration mode

Legend Yes No

Administration environment

Yes Hospital, clinic, university or recruitment center

No Participant residence

No Other

Staff administering test

Yes Professionals (nurses, clinicians, etc)

No Interviewers/research assistants

No Other

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