The SISTA Project

Investigators: Ralph DiClemente & Gina Wingood

SISTA, a gender-relevant, culturally sensitive group program for African-American women, is designed to be implemented in a community setting. Based on social cognitive theory and the theory of gender and power, SISTA seeks to prevent HIV transmission by promoting consistent condom use. Peer Health Educators lead five two-hour sessions, focusing first on ethnic and gender pride, then moving on to provide knowledge about HIV/AIDS and skills training to promote sexual safety. Each session employs group discussion, lecture, role play activities and written homework to increase retention of risk reduction strategies. Click here to view more detailed information on this program.

Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), Household Youth Data, 1988-94

Investigators: US Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is one of the major surveys of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) was conducted in two phases between October 1988 and October 1994. It was designed to obtain nationally representative information on the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population through in-home interviews and direct physical examinations conducted in a mobile examination center (MEC). NHANES III is the seventh in a series of national examination studies conducted in the U. S. beginning in 1960, and is the first NHANES to include persons 75 years of age and over. The goals of the NHANES III are similar to those of earlier NHANES and are listed below. The last two are new for the NHANES III. to estimate the national prevalence of selected diseases and risk factors, to estimate national population reference distributions of selected health parameters, to document and investigate reasons for secular trends in selected risk factors and diseases, to contribute to an understanding of what causes disease (etiology), and to investigate the natural history of selected diseases. The NHANES III Household Youth Data File contains all data collected during the household interviews for children and youths 2 months to 16 years of age. Demographic data, survey design variables, and sampling weights for this age group are also included. The data that comprise this file were obtained from three separate interviews administered in the household: the Screener, the Family, and Household Youth questionnaires.

Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3), September 5 through December 4, 1993

Investigators: Andrea J. Sedlak, Irene Hantman, and Dana Schultz

The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) was designed to meet several congressional mandates issued in the Child Abuse Prevention, Adoption, and Family Services Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-294). Specifically, the NIS-3: provided current estimates of the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the United States and measured changes in these estimates from earlier studies; examined the distribution of child maltreatment in relation to various demographic factors; estimated the incidence of substantiated maltreatment cases that result in civil and criminal proceedings, and their disposition; and developed an understanding of the relationships between an incident of maltreatment, its observation, its report to a Child Protective Services agency, and any actions taken by the agency. The NIS-3 offers an important perspective on the scope of child abuse and neglect. The NIS includes children who were investigated by child protective service (CPS) agencies, but it also obtains data on children seen by community professionals who were not reported to CPS or who were screened out by CPS without investigation. This means that the NIS estimates provide a more comprehensive measure of the scope of child abuse and neglect known to community professionals, including both abused and neglected children who are in the official statistics and those who are not. The NIS follows a nationally representative design, which means that the estimates represent the numbers of abused and neglected children in the United States who come to the attention of community professionals. The NIS-3 was conducted in a nationally representative sample of 42 counties. In every county, the CPS agency was a key participant, providing basic demographic data on all the children who were reported and accepted for investigation during the 3-month study data period, September 5 through December 4, 1993. Further details about the child's maltreatment and the outcome of the CPS investigation were obtained for a representative sample of these cases.

Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs (CC)

Investigators: Julie Solomon, Jacqueline Berman, Laura Lessard, Diana Dull Akers, Angela Amarillas, Megan Bunch, & Josefina J. Card

In the fight to reduce the spread of HIV, addressing the specific HIV-related needs of diverse cultural groups is becoming increasingly important. Tools for Building Culturally Competent Prevention Programs is designed to help HIV prevention professionals who are planning, implementing, or evaluating programs to increase the cultural competence and effectiveness of HIV prevention efforts in their local communities. The Tools website is divided into Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation Toolkits. Each Toolkit comprises a set of research-based, practitioner-friendly resources, including: Key Concepts, which summarize in plain language the important concepts and practices in effective, culturally competent HIV prevention programming. Interactive elements within the Key Concept webpages help reinforce the concepts with concrete examples. Tools, which are user-friendly MSWord checklists and worksheets that facilitate culturally competent programming. The user can type directly into each document and save it for future use. Other Resources, which include "tales from the field"--true stories of how the key concepts have been put into practice in real-world prevention settings--and links to additional relevant resources available through the Internet. The web site also contains an introductory section that provides an overview of the concepts of culture and cultural competence, and their relevance for HIV prevention programming. The site also offers a glossary of all the terms used in the site.

Trauma Focused Coping: Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after Single-Incident Trauma

Investigators: John S. March, MD, MPH & Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH

Trauma Focused Coping (TFC) is a group cognitive behavioral therapy treatment program for children and adolescents with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and collateral symptoms of depression, anxiety, anger, and external locus of control originating from single-incident trauma. Based on social learning theory, TFC uses a group skills-oriented cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach and involves 14 weekly sessions in which the first few sessions lay the groundwork for the child to think differently about PTSD. The treatment model is one of graded exposure, and begins with psychoeducation and cognitive therapy before moving to more exposure-based activities. TFC has two overall goals: 1) to help the child organize an accurate trauma narrative that places the trauma in the past and is without cognitive distortions, and 2) to promote behavior consistent with the view that the world is no longer dangerous when threat is truly absent. Each child completes a narrative Chapter Book that tells his or her story, including an accurate telling of the trauma history, its effects on the child's life, and successes in overcoming that history so that the child can live as comfortably as possible in the present. Session components include: psychoeducation, cognitive therapy, exposure-based behavior therapy, generalization training, and relapse prevention. TFC also offers developmentally appropriate treatment adaptations for elementary school-age children and junior high school adolescents including therapeutic modalities such as storybooks, narrative exposure, cognitive games, and peer modeling. Click here to view more detailed information on this program.

Treatment Process: A Problem at Three Levels, 1988

Investigators: Gerald R. Patterson and Patricia Chamberlain

This study investigates the process of therapeutic intervention in the treatment of oppositional children and their parents. As part of an ongoing program of empirical investigation of treatment process variables, Patterson and Chamberlain employ nonreactive observational measures of behavior to assess the effects of family management training on the behavior of extremely antisocial, preadolescent children. This dataset is comprised of two separate raw data files generated from this research. The first includes therapist-client verbal interaction codes for 73 families participating in the Parent Training treatment program conducted at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC). Three phases of treatment were videotaped. Verbal interactions were coded with the Therapy Process Coding System developed at OSLC. The second dataset includes demographic data gathered during the treatment intake interview.

Turning Point

Investigators: Russel S. Falck, Robert G. Carlson, & Harvey A. Siegal

Turning Point includes two separate interventions designed to reduce the frequency and probability of injection-risk behavior among IDUs not participating in drug abuse treatment programs. The basic intervention consists of two sessions. In the first session, participants undergo HIV antibody tests and receive pre-test counseling. In the second session, a counselor-educator provides detailed information about HIV and HIV transmission and guides the participant group through activities intended to teach behavioral strategies for avoiding exposure to HIV. Participants in the enhanced intervention complete the basic intervention and attend three additional sessions, in which they address HIV/AIDS pathology, drug addiction, and safer sex practices. Both interventions employ videotape presentations, role-play, hands-on demonstrations, and print materials. The enhanced intervention also employs slide presentations, self-assessment tests, and lecture/discussion. The program's effectiveness was evaluated in Dayton and Columbus, OH. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the two interventions. Surveys were administered to both groups at enrollment and six months after the intervention. A majority of participants in both the standard and enhanced interventions reported safer needle practices at follow-up. Although no difference in needle risk was observed between intervention groups when all subjects were included in analyses, participants in the enhanced intervention who reported unsafe needle practices at enrollment were significantly more likely to report safer needle practices at follow-up than similar participants in the standard intervention (Siegal, Falck, Carlson and Wang, 1995). Click here to view more detailed information on this program.

U.S. Census County and City Data Book, 1983: City Files

Investigators: U.S. Census Bureau

The U.S. Census County and City Databook, 1983, encompasses descriptive data ascertained from various U.S. census reports. Topics discussed range from basic demographic percentages such as number of whites or blacks in the population or number of females in the workforce to the payroll of retail markets or types of heating used in homes. This Data Set provides city-level profiles. A related Data Set (DAAPPP Data Set No. A9) provides state-level profiles.Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

U.S. Census County and City Data Book, 1983: State Files Plus Washington, DC

Investigators: U.S. Census Bureau

The U.S. Census County and City Databook, 1983, encompasses descriptive data ascertained from various U.S. census reports. Topics discussed range from basic demographic percentages such as number of whites or blacks in the population or number of females in the workforce to the payroll of retail markets or types of heating used in homes. This Data Set provides state-level profiles. A related Data Set (DAAPPP Data Set No. B1) provides city-level profiles. Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

U.S. Current Population Survey: Selected Variables-Children, 1980

Investigators: U.S. Census Bureau

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly household sample survey of individuals living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Conducted by the Bureau of the Census, this survey is intended to provide a basis for estimates of employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the general labor force, of the U.S. population as a whole, and of various subgroups of the population. In this survey data on demographic characteristics and employment experiences, for the week preceding the survey, are obtained for household members aged 14 or over. Data are obtained through interviews with a single responsible member of the household. Beginning in 1971, at the request of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a special supplementary survey was conducted in selected years, in conjunction with the June CPS, to obtain data on individuals' marital and fertility histories and on their birth expectations. Data were also obtained on children residing in the household. The file described here (DAAPPP Data Set No. 13) contains data for 37,970 children aged 13 and under residing in households surveyed in the June 1980 CPS. This file is intended as a supplement to the files for women and men included in the June 1980 CPS (DAAPPP Data Set Nos. 11 and 12, respectively). It provides information on the age, sex, race, ethnic background, and relationship to household head for all children in the participating households.