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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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Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment: Workshop Summary
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·2016
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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