Puerto Rican Elder: Health Conditions (PREHCO) Project, 2021-2022 (ICPSR 39091)

Version Date: Jul 1, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Michael Crowe, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Ana Luisa Dávila-Roman, University of Puerto Rico

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39091.v1

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Alternate Title

Aging in Puerto Rico: Longitudinal Follow-Up of the PREHCO Study, PREHCO Wave 3

Summary

This is the third wave of the PREHCO project (Puerto Rican Elder Health Conditions study) and was developed between 2021 and 2022 as a collaboration between the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the University of Puerto Rico. The project began as a cross-sectional study of the non-institutionalized population aged 60 years or older in Puerto Rico. This wave followed the survivors of the 1,299 original participants at the beginning of the fieldwork and aimed to examine the predictors of cognitive decline, disability, and mortality.

PREHCO was designed as a study comparable to the Multicenter Project on Health and Well-being of Older Adults in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE) developed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in several cities in Latin America, and with some studies carried out in the United States, mainly the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

For this purpose, a questionnaire was designed that included sections on health conditions, physical and mental disability, functionality, use of medicines, health needs and social services, access to and use of health services, abuse, migration, housing conditions, patterns of help from family, community and public and government agencies, and others.

Since its inception, PREHCO has been funded with federal funds from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Initially it was a project between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Puerto Rico from 2000-2009.

Citation

Crowe, Michael, and Dávila-Roman, Ana Luisa. Puerto Rican Elder: Health Conditions (PREHCO) Project, 2021-2022. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39091.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (RO1 AG064769)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Municipality

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2021-03-01 -- 2022-07-31

Date of Collection

2021-03-01 -- 2022-07-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. More details can be found by visiting the project website.

  2. Each dataset contains a CASEID variable which may be used for linking/merging. When using PREHCO Wave 1 or 2 data including the spouses as independent records (only targets were included in waves 3 and 4), the variable TYPE must be used in the equation (1=target, 2=spouse) since both respondent types share the CASEID.

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Sample

For the original sample of the first wave, a multi-stage, stratified cluster sampling was used, using the 2000 Population and Housing Census of the United States Census Bureau as a sampling frame. The sample included five strata and was representative of the population aged 60 years or older in Puerto Rico and of each of those strata. The longitudinal follow-up of the third wave of PREHCO was carried out on the sample of PREHCO survivors from wave 2, and maintains the characteristics of the original sample. In the third wave, 958 participants were interviewed directly or through an informant proxy, of the estimated 1,299 alive at the beginning of the field work.

Universe

People 78 or older of Puerto Rico living in households, including those unable to answer by themselves and survivors of the original PREHCO participants from 2002-2003.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

73.7%

Presence of Common Scales

The Veterans Rand 12 Item Health Survey (VR-12), Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6), Spanish form of Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), Perceived Stress Scale by Dr. Sheldon Cohen, CAGE questionnaire by Dr. John A. Ewing, BECK Anxiety Inventory (partial), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Traumatic Exposure Severity Scale (TESS)

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Original Release Date

2024-07-01

Version History

2024-07-01 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 recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Weight

Two weights are included: one for the targets with a direct interview (FACTORT_w3, n=617) and another for all the targets, with a direct interview or through a proxy (FACTORTP_w3, n=811).

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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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This study is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).