Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP) Survey of Access to Outpatient Medical Services in the Rural Southeast, 2002-2003 (ICPSR 4724)
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Donald E. Pathman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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This survey was conducted to obtain baseline data as part of an evaluation of the Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative to improve access to health care services in select rural areas of eight states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia, and eastern Texas. Within these states, 150 nonmetropolitan counties were selected for SRAP participation based on perceived local health needs, willingness of local organizations and providers to partner with the program's efforts, and prospects for long-term program viability. The SRAP counties demonstrated greater socioeconomic need than other nonmetropolitan counties in the eight states: approximately 50 percent higher poverty rates, 30 percent higher unemployment, and 40 percent greater minority proportions. Topics covered by the survey include health status, health insurance coverage, health care access challenges, confidence in and satisfaction with health care, and utilization of outpatient services including specific disease prevention services. Personal demographic characteristics collected by the survey include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, primary language spoken at home, marital status, educational achievement, work status, income, number of children at home, and the state, county, town, and ZIP code of residence. The data file also contains county-level and Primary Care Service Area (PCSA)-level contextual variables from external sources, such as population size, population composition by race, number of hospital beds, and variables indicating the presence of short term hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers.
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As explained in the ICPSR Processing Note in the codebook, many variables are restricted from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.
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Random digit dialing modeled after the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System was used. Up to 10 calls were made to randomly generated numbers within telephone exchanges and active number blocks in each county. Six-hundred completed surveys were targeted for the counties of each state. One individual was randomly selected within each household. Less populated counties were over-sampled.
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Persons 18 years old and over in the SRAP counties who spoke either English or Spanish and lived in their community for at least the twelve previous months.
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Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) Provider of Services (POS) System Data Base. Office of Information Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003
Primary Care Service Area and ZIP Code Tabulation Area Data. Geospatial Data Warehouse, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2004.
Area Resource File (ARF). Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2004
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The participation rate of households reached was 51 percent, with 4,879 total respondents and 4,682 refusals. Any telephone number that was reached (i.e., the call was picked up) was conservatively treated as eligible and counted as a refusal if the call was terminated before it could be determined whether an eligible adult lived in the household.
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2007-06-27
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- Pathman, Donald E. Southern Rural Access Program (SRAP) Survey of Access to Outpatient Medical Services in the Rural Southeast, 2002-2003. ICPSR04724-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-10-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04724.v2
2007-10-17 The verbatim responses to questions 75, 75A, 76, 76A, 78A, 78B, and 79A have been appended to the data file. These responses are restricted from general dissemination.
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This study is maintained and distributed by the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA). HMCA is the official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.