Survey Introduction

Share your thoughts on health research We’re carrying out health research with the people of Scotland. For the Generation Scotland project, 24,000 people from 7,000 families have already shared information about their health, personality and lifestyle with us. They have allowed us to link all this information up to their NHS medical records and collect blood samples to look at their genetic makeup. We take very great care to keep their information safe and secure. We’ve learnt a lot already about how health risks run in families and about how these risks are affected by where you were born and brought up, your schooling and your occupation. We’re planning the next stage of our research and want to hear your views. This will help us understand what matters most to you and will help us plan our future research. The survey is entirely voluntary and confidential and anonymous. It will take 5–10 minutes to complete. You don’t have to be a member of Generation Scotland to take part, or to have been involved in health research before. Before you start, it would be useful to have some basic information about you