CBS News/New York Times Women's Health Poll, May 1997

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Label

CBS News/New York Times Women's Health Poll, May 1997

Statement of responsibility

CBS NewsThe New York Times

Contributor

• CBS News
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
• New York Times Company

Subject

• Breast cancer
• Health
• Health behavior
• Health care
• Health problems
• Mammography
• Medical care
• Menopause
• Patient care
• Patient education
• Patients
• Physician patient relationship
• Physicians
• Public opinion
• Statistics
• Womens health care

Genre

• Statistics

Language

eng

Summary

This special topic poll, fielded May 19-22, 1997, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The focus of this data collection was men's and women's health issues. Respondents were asked about health-related topics such as what they thought was the leading cause of death for women, the perceived differences in men's and women's health and their interactions with their doctors, what they thought were the most serious diseases or medical problems facing the country, and whether they thought the federal government spends more money researching health problems as they relate to men or more money researching health problems as they relate to women. Female respondents were polled on whether a doctor had ever discussed mammograms with them, whether they ever had a mammogram, how trustworthy, safe, and painful mammograms were, at which age women should begin getting mammograms, and how often they conducted breast self-examinations. All respondents were asked whether they tried alternative medicine, whether they had considered trying alternative medicine, and whether they would choose alternative medicine instead of traditional medicine. A series of questions were asked about the type of interactions respondents had with their doctors such as whether respondents felt intimidated by their doctors, how comfortable respondents felt asking their doctors a lot of questions, whether respondents thought their doctors spoke down to them, and whether respondents usually call their doctors by their first name. Respondent's views were also sought on other topics such as the respondent's state of health, menopause, and hormone replacement therapy. Demographic variables included sex, age, race, education level, employment status, presence of children and teen ... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04490

Member of

• ICPSR (Series), 4490

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Also available as downloadable files.

Cataloging source

ICPSR

Characteristic

numeric data

Geographic coverage

United States.

Government publication

unknown if item is government publication

Series statement

• ICPSR
• CBS News/New York Times Poll Series

Series volume

• 4490
• 4490

Target audience

specialized