Document title: Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health, 2008 and 2009
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This report presents findings from the Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health (KAM) module included within the 2008 and 2009 Scottish Health Survey (SHeS). The KAM module is the successor to the Health Education Population Survey, which ran in two waves annually between 1996 and 2007 (with the exception of three waves which were suspended in 1999-2000) and was intended to monitor progress in the process of achieving change in health behaviours through a health education approach. The KAM module is embedded within SHeS so can draw on a much wider pool of information about health-related behaviours, experiences and characteristics expanding the possibility for analysis and for a robust examination of the links between knowledge, attitudes, motivations and actual behaviour.
Author(s): Catherine Bromley, Lisa Given, Rachel Ormston, Clare Sharp, Martine Miller, Simon Anderson, Claudia Martin, John D'Souza (Scottish Centre for Social Research)
Publisher(s): NHS Health Scotland / ScotPHO
Date published: 14 December 2010
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*** Please read important note below before downloading the report ***

Report: Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health, 2008 and 2009 (2.78Mb)

Related additional resource: Knowledge, Attitudes and Motivations to health press release (prepared by NHS Health Scotland) (793Kb)

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***

Due to identification of some errors in the 2008/09 KAM report the tables have been reproduced and can be found below. There were two reasons for changes to data published in the original report:

  1. An error was identified with the weighting variables in the 2009 Scottish Health Survey. This has resulted in slight changes to some tables in the 2008/09 KAM report. Further details can be found on the Scottish Government's Scottish Health Survey web pages.
  2. When reproducing the tables containing the corrected 2008/09 KAM data further errors were identified in the alcohol chapter (chapter 4) and the sexual health chapter (chapter 9). The tables affected by this can be identified on the red coloured worksheets within the chapter 4 and chapter 9 spreadsheets.

Please use these updated tables when referencing any of the KAM 2008/09 data.