Community Health Center: Core Data Project, 2001-2002 [United States] (ICPSR 21520)
Version Date: Dec 13, 2023 View help for published
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Judith B. Bradford, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Fenway Community Health
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21520.v2
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A survey was administered to any patient that presented for services at a health center between 2001 and 2002. Patients were asked to complete a brief survey with questions relating to demographic, relationship status, reason for choosing this health center, mental health status, and abuse history.
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The survey was completed by 3,103 patients during the data collection period. The survey was administered by Patient Registration staff at the time of patient registration.
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Modifications were made to the survey during the collection period. Both versions of the survey instruments are available.
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To protect the confidentiality of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been collapsed or recoded on the public use files. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use files.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of collecting gender identity and sexual orientation data at a community health center to better understand how these characteristics were related to patients' self-reported life experiences, and to explore how this information could be used to improve patient care.
Study Design View help for Study Design
Individuals seen during a 12-months period completed a one-page, voluntary questionnaire at intake.
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Any patient presenting for care was given the opportunity to complete the survey.
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All individuals aged 18 and older living in 6 New England states.
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agency-sponsored
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Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
Significant demographic variables include gender, transgender, sexual orientation, relationship status, annual income, and education. Abuse history variables include whether a person was a victim and/or perpetrator. Discrimination experiences relating to sexual orientation status were included. Other key topics included use of alcohol and other drugs, discrimination, smoking, and mental health.
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Several response categories were used.
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2013-04-04
Version History View help for Version History
2023-12-13 The variables AGE and AGEGROUP were added to the collection. The variable REASONFCH was updated to address errors in the coding. Online analysis was added.
2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:- Bradford, Judith B. Community Health Center: Core Data Project, 2001-2002 [United States]. ICPSR21520-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21520.v2
2013-04-04 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?