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Trends in Undiagnosed Chlamydia Prevalence in Baltimore, 1997-1998 and 2006-2009 (ICPSR 35064)
Released/updated on: 2014-09-26
Geographic coverage: Baltimore, United States, Maryland
Time period: 1997-01-01--1998-09-01, 2006-09-01--2009-06-01
The 1997-1998 Baltimore STD and Behavior Survey (BSBS) and the 2006-2009 Monitoring STIs Survey Program (MSSP) collected biospecimens from adults ages 18 to 35 in Baltimore to estimate trends in undiagnosed chlamydial infection. The survey recruited a population sample of young adults to participate in an in-person survey of sexual and other sensitive behaviors and STD history. BSBS data collection was conducted over the period of January, 1997 through September, 1998. Respondents also provided a urine sample. The MSSP collected telephone survey data and eligible respondents mailed in specimens for testing. The biospecimens allowed for continuous monitoring of three STIs -- gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, and trichomoniasis. The data collection contains variables about infection symptoms, use of antibiotics, sexual activity and behavior, domestic violence, drug use and whether respondents are positive for chlamydia. Demographic information includes gender, age, education, marital status, race, and employment status.
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Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT): Verbal Autopsy Data, Malawi, 2009-2019 [Healthy Futures] (ICPSR 39181)
Released/updated on: 2024-08-19
Geographic coverage: Balaka, Malawi, Africa
Time period: 2009-01-01--2019-01-01
Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT) was a longitudinal study in Balaka, Malawi designed to examine how young people navigate reproduction in an AIDS epidemic. Tsogolo la Thanzi means "Healthy Futures" in Chichewa, Malawi's most widely spoken language. This particular study contains the Verbal Autopsy data providing information on 36 respondents who died over the study period (2009-2019). These 36 individuals were known to be deceased through recruitment efforts to re-interview the person during a subsequent wave of data collection. However, not all groups of respondents were re-interviewed in 2012, 2015, and 2019. Therefore, the total number of deaths from the original sample is potentially more than what is reported in this particular study. The 36 verbal autopsy cases in this study represent known deaths, and should not be interpreted as an inventory of all deaths that occurred.
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Undiagnosed Trichomoniasis Infection in the Population of Baltimore, MD: Data from the 2006 - 2009 Monitoring STIs Survey Program (ICPSR 35066)
Released/updated on: 2014-11-25
Geographic coverage: Baltimore, United States, Maryland
Time period: 2006-09-05--2009-08-15
The Monitoring STIs Survey Program (MSSP) monitored sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence among probability samples of adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 35 with landline phones in Baltimore, Maryland from 2006 to 2009. The MSSP collected survey data using telephone audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (TACASI) and biospecimens which were tested using nucleic acid amplification tests to monitor trichomonaiasis and other STIs. Respondents provided information about their sexual practices, sexual history, information about incarceration of themselves or their partners, and information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), STIs, and respective treatments. Demographic variables collected include gender, race, educational attainment, age, employment status, and marital status.
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United States National Health Measurement Study, 2005-2006 (ICPSR 23263)
Released/updated on: 2009-06-23
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 2005-06-01--2006-08-01
The National Health Measurement Study (NHMS) surveyed older United States adults with a suite of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) indices to allow comparison and cross-calibration of these instruments. The design oversampled African Americans and older individuals to allow subgroup analyses. Several preference-weighted indices measuring self-reported generic HRQoL are used widely in population surveys and clinical studies in the United States and around the world. These indices are used to evaluate individual and population health. Because they have been developed using econometric methods to elicit utility weights for their scoring systems, they are generally accepted for use in cost-effectiveness analyses of health interventions. Each index uses a multidimensional representation of health, but each index covers the dimensions of health (e.g., physical function, mental function, social function, pain, other symptoms, etc.) differently, and uses questionnaires with different psychometric properties. Each index is scored so that perfect health is represented as 1.0 and dead is represented as 0.0, but they are known to have different scaling properties. Rarely have two or more of these instruments been included in a population survey, so there have been few opportunities to directly compare how they describe and measure health using multi-instrument data. In this study, respondents indicated whether they had been diagnosed with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, eye disease, sleep disorder, chronic respiratory disease, clinical depression or anxiety disorder, gastrointestinal ulcer, thyroid disorder, and/or severe chronic back pain. Census tract is not identified, however race composition, education levels, economic factors, and urbanicity of each respondent's census tract of residence are included as contextual variables. Demographic, socioeconomic, and additional health data were elicited. Respondents are characterized by census region of residence, age, gender, marital status, race, ethnicity, education, household income and assets, health insurance, weight, height, smoking status, psychological well-being scales, and everyday and lifetime discrimination items. The data were de-identified, and extensive documentation was developed. The NHMS collected data on 3,844 adults in the continental United States (1,641 males and 2,203 females, 1,086 African Americans).