Health Attitudes Scale Test - the question form

1. Taking any medication poisons the body.

2. Illness is a convenient excuse for not going to work.

3. Illness helps clarify life priorities.

4. It is impossible to maintain good health if you have a low income.

5. In healthcare organizations, more attention is paid to statistics and paperwork than to people.

6. Most nurses lack patience when working with patients.

7. Older doctors are more trustworthy than younger specialists.

8. Doctors are willing to sacrifice their own health to help other people.

9. Traditional medicine methods are safer and more effective than modern medicines.

10. Being ill is a good way to receive benefits and allowances.

11. Illness helps a person understand what is important in life and what is not.

12. These days, many people cannot afford healthcare.

13. Doctors are overburdened with paperwork and other administrative tasks that are not related to patient care.

14. Most nurses are unfriendly toward patients.

15. I would trust my own child’s medical care only to a physician with extensive experience.

16. Most of the time, physicians are indifferent to their patients' suffering.

17. Medicines have far more negative effects than are stated in the package insert.

18. Illness is a good way to draw attention to myself and receive care from others.

19. Illness leads to an understanding of the value of health.

20. A healthy lifestyle is only accessible to wealthy people.

21. Doctors are more concerned with completing medical paperwork than with their patients' problems.

22. In the workplace, nurses are usually preoccupied with personal problems rather than providing medical care to patients.

23. Most medical errors are made by young doctors.

24. In general, doctors treat people in a formal and superficial way.