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The workshop discussions focused on options for expanding SAMHSA's behavioral health data collections to include measures of specific mental illness diagnoses with functional impairment and explored new measures and efficient mechanisms for collecting the data. Possibilities included adding new measures to existing surveys, initiating new data collections, or implementing model-based estimation procedures that take advantage of existing data sources, in the event that primary data collection methods are cost-prohibitive or not necessary. Survey and questionnaire design tradeoffs, as well as the potential impact of any changes to existing surveys.
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The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the goal of assi...
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Description
A steering committee will organize a public workshop that will feature invited presentations and discussions on options for expanding SAMHSA's behavioral health data collections to include measures of specific mental illness diagnoses with functional impairment. The discussion will explore new measures and efficient mechanisms for collecting the data. Possibilities include adding new measures to existing surveys, initiating new data collections, or implementing model-based estimation procedures that take advantage of existing data sources, in the event that primary data collection methods are cost-prohibitive or not necessary. Survey and questionnaire design tradeoffs, as well as the potential impact of any changes to existing surveys, will also be discussed. An individually authored summary of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Collaborators
Sponsors
Department of Health and Human Services
Staff
Krisztina Marton
Lead
Krisztina Marton
Jeanne Rivard
Major units and sub-units
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Lead
Institute of Medicine
Lead
Board on Health Sciences Policy
Lead
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
Lead
Committee on National Statistics
Lead