HINTS: HINTS Questions

Patient-Provider Communication

This section provides data from the 2003, 2005 & 2007 HINTS surveys, including survey numbers, respondent characteristics, estimated U.S. population numbers, charts, and trends.

Patient-Provider Communication
	Asked in 2003?	Asked in 2005?	Asked in 2007?
A mammogram is an x-ray of each breast to look for breast cancer. During the past 12 months, did a doctor, nurse, or other health professional advise you to get a mammogram?	[BC-04]
Have you ever been diagnosed as having cancer?	[CH-01]	[CA-01]	[CS17]
Has a health care provider such as a doctor or nurse ever talked to you about a HPV vaccine or shot?			[BR65]
Has a health care provider such as a doctor or nurse ever talked to you about a HPV test?			[BR66]
Has a doctor, nurse or other health professional ever advised you to get a test to check for colon cancer?		[CC-04]
Did a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever advise you to get a sigmoidoscopy?	[CC-17a]
Did a doctor, nurse, or other health professional ever advise you to get a colonoscopy?	[CC-17b]
During the past 12 months, did a doctor, nurse, or other health professional advise you to do a stool blood test using a home test kit?	[CC-05]
Think about the last time a doctor, nurse or other health professional told you that you should get a test to check for colon cancer. When did that discussion take place?			[BR76]
Was it within the last five years?			[BR76a]
Who talked to you about getting a test to check for colon cancer?			[BR77a]
Who talked to you about getting a test to check for colon cancer?			[BR77b]
Who talked to you about getting a test to check for colon cancer?			[BR77c]
Did the {doctor, nurse, or other health professional} describe any other test?			[BR81]
What test did the {doctor, nurse, or other health professional} describe?			[BR82]
The last time you were told you should be tested for colon cancer, did the {doctor, nurse, or other health professional} recommend to you any particular test?			[BR83]
Which test to check for colon cancer did the {doctor, nurse, or other health professional} recommend to you?			[BR84]
Within the past 12 months, how much have you heard about nutrition and cancer from a doctor or other health care professional?		[EB-21e]
Within the past 12 months, how much have you heard about physical activity or exercise and cancer from a doctor or other health care professional?		[EB-21e]
In the past 12 months, have you talked to a doctor, nurse, or other health professional about any kind of health information you have gotten from the Internet?		[HC-15]	[HS09]
In the past 12 months when you talked with a health care professional, how interested were they in hearing about the information you found on-line?		[HC-16]	[HS10]
During the past 12 months, how often did doctors or other health providers listen carefully to you?	[HC-04a]
How often did they explain things in a way you could understand?	[HC-04b]
How often did they show respect for what you had to say?	[HC-04c]
How often did they spend enough time with you?	[HC-04d]
How often did they involve you in decisions about your health care as much as you wanted?	[HC-04e]		[HS07c]
Did you discuss your use of unconventional therapies with any of your doctors?			[HS06]
During the past 12 months, how often did doctors, nurses, or other health professionals give you the chance to ask all the health-related questions you had.			[HS07a]
How often did doctors, nurses, or other health professionals give the attention you needed to your feelings and emotions?			[HS07b]
How often did they make sure you understood the things you needed to do to take care of your health?			[HS07d]
How often did they help you deal with feelings of uncertainty about your health or health care?			[HS07e]
In the past 12 months, how often did you feel you could rely on your doctors, nurses, or other health care professionals to take care of your health care needs?			[HS07f]
Has a health care provider such as a doctor or nurse ever talked to you about a PSA test?		[PC-04]
Thinking about the last time a health care provider talked to you about a PSA test, which of the following statements best describes your health care provider's recommendation about PSA tests? That you should have a PSA test. That you should NOT have a PSA test. Your health care provider did not make a recommendation.		[PC-05]
Thinking about the last time a health care provider talked to you about a PSA test, did your health care provider encourage you to ask questions or express any concerns you had about PSA testing? Would you say yes, definitely; yes, somewhat; or no, not at all?		[PC-06]
In the past 12 months, did any doctor, dentist, nurse or other health professional suggest that you call or use a telephone helpline or quit line to help you quit smoking?			[BR52]