Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire

Project Details

The Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire (HLQ) was launched in 2014, in part, to better describe Twins Research Australia's (TRA) membership through the publication of summary statistics to both the twin and the researcher communities. These statistics include zygosity, age, gestation term and medical conditions. The HLQ enables identification of potential participants for specific research studies to reduce costs to researchers and unnecessary approaches to ineligible TRA members. It also enhances fast-track research by providing de-identified data to researchers for ethically approved research analyses.

The questionnaire contained demographic questions and covered a broad range of health conditions and risk factors.
Topics:
* Zygosity
* Education
* Income, employment
* Nationality
* General health, medical conditions, lifestyle
* Screening for breast, colon and prostate cancer

For further information, including reference documents and data dictionaires, please visit: http://twins.org.au/health-and-lifestyle-questionnaire

Researchers

Prof John Hopper, Director and Unit Lead
Dr Katrina Scurrah, Statistician
Tessa Cutler, Research Assistant
Jenny Boadle, TRA Manager

Funding

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Grant

Research Group

Twins Research Australia


Faculty Research Themes

Cancer, Child Health, Infection and Immunology, Neuroscience

School Research Themes

Prevention and management of non-communicable diseases (including cancer), and promotion of mental health, Data science, health metrics and disease modeling, Disparities, disadvantage and effective health care, Screening and early detection of disease


Key Contact

For further information about this research, please contact the research group leader.

Department / Centre

Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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