Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was: to collect data describing the main features of general practice - family, personal, domiciliary and front-line care; to obtain information about the role of the general practitioner as seen by both patients and doctors. There are ten datasets making up this study: <i>Main Patients</i> SN:394 <i>General Practitioners</i> SN:704 <i>Depression</i> SN:705 <i>G.P. Consultation</i> SN:706 <i>Out-Patients</i> SN:707 <i>Children</i> SN:708 <i>Mothers</i> SN:709 <i>Old People</i> SN:710 <i>Failure Schedules</i> SN:835 <i>No National Health Service Docotr</i> SN:836
Main Topics:
Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Reasons for failure to interview, type of doctor and attitude to doctor (where known). Background Variables Age, sex.
Random for patients, total doctors of patients' sample
Face-to-face interview
Postal survey
Face-to-face interviews were conducted with patients, and doctors received a postal questionnaire.