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The workshop featured options for expanding SAMHSA's behavioral health data collections to include measures of trauma. The discussion 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 Trauma: Workshop Summary
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·2016
The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Data Collection Programs, held in Washington, D.C. in December 2015, was organized as part of an effort to assist SAMHSA and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Plan...
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