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Introduction of CDC's Web-Based Tobacco Survey Database

The Question Inventory on Tobacco (QIT)

Angela Trosclair, MSLinda Pederson, PhD

Pascale Wortley, MD, MPHMichael Schooley, MPH

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What is QIT?

• QIT includes data from 13 different health surveys (most from 1990 or later)

• QIT includes data from both national and state surveys

• QIT includes data collected from both youth and adults

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How can QIT be used?

• QIT can be used to locate survey questions and their response formats

• QIT can be used to locate data and documentation for secondary data analyses

• QIT can be used to gather ideas for future survey development

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Demonstration Objectives

1) A simple search by category and keyword

2) A guided search through

– A selection of category and keywords

— A selection of scope and population

— A selection of survey and selected year

3) A review of QIT’s key features

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A Simple Search by Category and Keyword

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Search of Category, Media/Advertising, and Keyword, Actors

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Results

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Question Details for 1st Result

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Survey Details for 1st Result

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A More Complex Search Based on Category and Keywords, Scope, Population, and Survey

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Search on Policy/ETS for indoors and work.

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The Search Returns 38 Results

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Too many results. Let's narrow the search by selecting a population and scope.

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Back to the Category/Keyword page to Add More Criteria

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Now we can Select a Scope and Population

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Let’s choose to look at All Surveys

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Now these are the Options available for Population

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Now let’s look at only state surveys.

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This will change the options available for Population

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Let's choose to look at state surveys of adults only

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Now there are only 9 Results…Let’s further refine the search.

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Again, we’ll Add More Criteria.

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QIT Warning Message for a Guided Search

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Now we can narrow the search by Survey and/or Year.

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Let's choose to look at BRFSS questions only

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3 results are returned. Let’s look at details for the 2nd question.

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Let’s look at Survey Details for BRFSS.

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Clicking on the Survey Sponsor link takes us to the home page of the organization that sponsors the survey

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Clicking on the Data for Public Use link will bring us to the specific site where public use data and documentation can be

found or on-line data are available for preset analyses

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Key Features of QIT

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A practical way to familiarize yourself with our category and keyword scheme is to use the Category/Keyword Index

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The Survey Directory

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Related Links

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Additional data resources can be found in the OSH publication...

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/surveillance_manual/Surveillance.pdf

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QIT Help includes

• Search Tips

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• Browser Requirements

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What the QIT database cannot do....

• QIT cannot be used as a survey creation tool, although questions from QIT can be used to gather ideas for future questionnaire development

• Provide you with sources for public use data for every survey and year for which questions are available, particularly state surveys and questions from older surveys

• Provide the logic, thought, and effort that are needed to create an effective written, CATI, or CAPI survey instrument complete with skip patterns, for example.

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Example of a QIT Error Message

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The other QIT Error Message

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Northrup Grumman Missions Systems

Hu Yang, MBA of Hi-Hu, Inc. Technical Lead and Senior Developer

John Walsh System Designer and Developer

Allison MacNeil, MPH Systems Analyst and Data Manager

Prabhu Krishnadas, MS Usability Specialist

Jeffrey Chrismon, PMP Project Manager

Dalyrema Johnson, BS

Health Care Analyst

Acknowledgements

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Angela Trosclair, MSATrosclair@cdc.gov

The Question Inventory on Tobaccohttp://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/qit