illinois efforts to increase prams response rate idph/ichs 6/2000 rocio fuller
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Illinois Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate
IDPH/ICHS
6/2000
Rocio Fuller
Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate
• Draw Monthly Sample• Process for Cleaning
Every Batch• Illinois Cornerstone• PramTrac• Undelivered Mail &
Phone Sheets• Internet Search
• Phone Phase• Thank You• Adding Golf Pencils
to Questionnaires
Draw Monthly Sample
• Previous Procedure
• New Procedure
• Advantages: Minimum waiting period
between batchesBetter addresses
for mothers More time to work with each batch
Process for Cleaning Every Batch http://www.usps.com
• Add last four digits to the zip-code to every mother in the batch
• Exceptions: Apartment number is missing Township is wrong Address is wrong Address is incomplete Unmatched address
Illinois Cornerstone
• State listing of mothers who have received public services
WICIMMUNIZATION
FAMILY CASE MANAGEMENT DIABETES
BREAST & CERVICAL CANCER
PramTrac
• Enter alternative addresses for mothers from Cornerstone
• Time between addresses is a year or less
• Phone numbers
• Apartment numbers
Process for Undelivered Mail & Trouble Phone Sheets
• PramTrac Process:Identify mother’s age
Identify mother’s marital statusIdentify mother’s maiden nameIdentify father’s informationIdentify mother’s race Identify low birthweight and
normal birthweight
Fax Form
Internet Search
• http://www.anywho.com
• http://www.infospace.com
• http://www.switchboard.com
• http://www.bigfoot.com
• http://www.people.yahoo.com
• http://webcrawler.com/reference/people_finder
http://www.anywho.com
• Search by: Name, Street, City, State, or Zipcode
• Advantages: Name, complete address and phone number
• Disadvantage: It does not provide total number of results for a given person
http://www.infospace.com
• Search by: Name, City or State
• Reverse Lookup Type an address to get
phone number for that address
• Advantages: provides total number of matches for a given last name
• Disadvantages: Need to click on the name to get the address and phone number
http://www.switchboard.com
• Search: Name, City, and State
• Advantage: Complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person
http://www.bigfoot.com
• Search: Name, City, or State
• Advantage: Provides complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person
http://www.people.yahoo.com
• Search: Name, City, or State
• Advantage: provides total number of results for a given person
• Disadvantage: Addresses with phone numbers but no zip codes
http://webcrawler.com/reference/people_finder
• Search: Name, Street, City, State, Zip
• Advantages:Provides complete address and phone number. Provides good results
• Disadvantage: Provides too much information
Search
Search
Phone Phase
• Print phone sheets- a week before batch goes to phone
phase
• Identify: mother’s DOB mother’s ethnicity mother’s marital status mother’s maiden name low birthweight
normal birthweight
Phone Phase/Cornerstone
• Phone numbers
• Additional addresses
• Other contacts
Thank You
• Incentive:-Certificate of appreciation
-Tote Bag-Picture Frame
Adding Pencils to the Questionnaires
Pencil Experiment
• Control Group: Books sent with pencils
• Experimental Group: Books sent without pencils
• Results: Similar results for both groups
54
51
34
5352
34
0
15
30
45
60
75
31 32 33
Batch
M1-1M1-2
ILLINOIS PRAMS STAFF