Table 3.
Items collected in the baseline survey questionnaire
Domains (no of questions) | Items |
Demographics (4) | Date of birth, gender, name and workplace address |
Work history (4) | Job title, specialty, years since beginning work and total duration of work |
Work practices (7) | Proportion of interventional procedures for the recent year, working days per month, working hours per week, name of the main procedure performed, badge wearing, wearing of protective equipment and use of shielding devices |
Experience of high radiation exposure (2) | Exposure to >5 milliSievert a quarter and low WCC |
Personal medical examination (6) | CT scan, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine imaging, PET-CT scan, interventional radiography and radiation therapy |
Lifestyle (2) | Smoking and alcohol consumption |
Medical history (9) | Cataract, eye irritation, anaemia, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, cancer, thyroid disease, neck/back pain and skin disease |
PET, positron emission tomography; WCC, white cell count.