A Unit of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago
 
 
 
 

ANNUAL REPORT

1996–1997
 
 
 
 
 
 

Timothy P. Johnson

Acting Director
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Table of Contents

Report of the Director 1

SRL Studies 2

New Studies 2

Continuing Studies 5

Service Projects 10

Project Development 11

New Pending Projects 11

Continuing Pending Projects 13

Staff Activities 16

Publications 16

Conference Presentations 18

Conference Organization 21

Other Conference Activity 21

Other Presentations 21

Positions Held in Professional Organizations 22

Editorial Activities 22

Survey Research Newsletter 22

Advising 23

Committees 23

Consulting, Other Professional Services 24

Grants and Contracts 24

Appendix A: SRL Staff as of June 30, 1997 26

Appendix B: Faculty Advisory Committees 27
 
 

Tables

1 Affiliations of Sponsors of New and Continuing Projects 9

2 Projects No Longer Under Development as of June 30, 1997 15
 
 
   Editor: Andrea Van Proyen

Technical Assistance: Diane O’Rourke, Marguerite Harris, Michelle White
  Produced by the Survey Research Laboratory, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago; 4/98; 200.
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Report of the Director
 
 

This past year has been one of transitions for the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL). Richard Warnecke stepped down as director in May 1996. (His accomplishments were formally recognized at a reception held in April 1997.) As acting director, I have personally relished the challenge of maintaining the standard of exceptional leadership he set during his 15-year tenure. As SRL has become more fully integrated into the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA), we have had the opportunity to strengthen our working relationships with staff and faculty from other CUPPA programs and research centers. Our move in late 1997 to CUPPA=s new home, the Alumni Hall South Building on South Peoria Street, should serve to further strengthen these relationships.
 
 

We also are fortunate to have been able to continue our long-standing relationships with other units of the Urbana-Champaign and Chicago campuses, as well as faculty from other universities and several agencies of the state of Illinois. To make our services available to a greater number of groups and individuals in Illinois, we began planning an annual statewide omnibus survey that will provide those who may not have the means to finance customized surveys with the opportunity to collect city, metropolitan, and statewide survey data in a cost-effective manner.
 
 

In 1996–1997, SRL again finished with a balanced ledger, thanks in large measure to the financial management system implemented by Dr. Warnecke earlier in the decade and operated so efficiently by Marguerite Harris and her staff. Several long-term research projects that were initiated during 1995–1996 continued through 1996–1997, and some will continue into 1997–1998, providing SRL a healthy funding foundation. We are investing heavily in the development of research proposals that will insure our continued viability in the years ahead.
 
 

SRL=s staff continued a long tradition of service to the survey research profession by chairing, coordinating, and serving on program committees of several professional conferences, serving on the editorial boards of several professional journals, and preparing Survey Research newsletter, which serves as an instrument of communication among and about academic and not-for-profit survey research organizations around the world. Thirteen members of the SRL staff gave conference presentations during 1996-1997, providing further evidence of our staff’s ongoing commitment to the profession and their own professional development. Those of our most senior staff who serve on national advisory boards enhance both their own well-deserved reputations and that of SRL.
 
 

Serving as acting director during this past year has been both a privilege and an education. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all SRL staff for their diligence, dedication, and loyalty in the face of the inevitable adversities that complex organizations must sometimes face. Without their creativity and effort, there would be no SRL. In addition, I would like also to specifically acknowledge several individuals who have been reliable and constant sources of sound advice. These include Marguerite Harris, Diane O=Rourke, Al Schorsch, Seymour Sudman, Richard Warnecke, and Wim Wiewel. Finally, the success of the Survey Research Laboratory should also be attributed to the countless anonymous individuals who have taken the time to participate in one of our surveys during this past year. Their contributions have provided us all with a better insight into the social environment we share and struggle to understand.
 
 

SRL Studies
 
 

The Survey Research Laboratory was involved in 51 new and continuing studies in 1996–1997, ranging from large, multiyear studies to small service projects. This section presents brief summaries of these studies and a table of the affiliations of the sponsors of these studies.
 
 

SRL’s special research focus on survey methodology continued in 1996–1997. Over half of SRL’s studies for 1996–1997 were health related, making health SRL’s major area of substantive research, as it has been for a number of years. Major areas of research activity included smoking cessation, cancer screening and prevention, and substance abuse. Several studies centered on minority health issues. Other major study areas included aging, crime, educational institutions, and the environment.

New Studies

From July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997, SRL staff and clients initiated 23 new studies. Of these 23 studies, 14 were for University of Illinois clients (Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses), five for other academic institutions, three for government agencies, and one for other organizations. Eight of the 23 were direct awards to SRL staff as principal investigators. (See Grants and Contracts listings in Staff Activities section for more information on these studies.)

777 Adult Suicide Prevention

Janet Grossman, UIC Institute for Juvenile Research, commissioned this study involving two focus groups with mothers of youths seen in the emergency department of Riverside Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, for attempted suicide. It tested a theory of readiness and parent action in restricting the youths’ access to firearms.

778 Henry Horner Redevelopment Study

The purpose of this study for Susan Popkin, Abt Associates Inc, funded by the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation, was to assess the Henry Horner economic redevelopment project in Chicago, including efforts to integrate the residents into the larger community. SRL conducted focus groups and cognitive interviews with Horner residents as part of questionnaire development. Face-to-face interviews with 500 residents began in January 1997. Victoria Gwiasda, SRL, was co-principal investigator.

779 Sickle Cell Disease: Moving from Child Care to Adult Care

Focus groups were conducted with adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease and with their parents and medical practitioners on the experiences and concerns of people with the disease as they move from child-centered to adult-centered care. The results will be used to develop a transitional protocol to reduce the number of patients lost to follow-up in the transition to adult-centered care. The study is being funded by the Chicago Health Policy Research Council. The principal investigator is Elizabeth Hauser, SRL.

780 Mental Health Service Utilization Among Adolescents

This pilot for a study proposed by Michael Fendrich UIC Department of Psychiatry, Catherine Nageotte, UIC Psychiatric Institute Research Infrastructure Support Program, and Timothy Johnson, SRL, evaluated the validity of mental health service using information provided by parents about their children. It allowed the development of clearer hypotheses about salience of reporting-validity issues in services research and about the cognitive processes associated with service use reporting error. A sample of 200 cases was selected for telephone interviews and medical records abstraction.

781 Pilot Survey of Female Veterans

A convenience sample of 200 female veterans seen at a Veterans Affairs clinic were interviewed face-to-face on whether their mental and physical health needs were met and on the quality of service. This pilot survey was for Linda Grossman, Program for Mental Health Services Research on Women and Gender, UIC Psychiatric Institute.

782 Survey of Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotechnical Organizations

This study was conducted for David Dranove, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and Burt Weisbrod, Department of Economics, Northwestern University, with funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Questionnaires were mailed to 109 medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnical companies to assess the extent of their research and development projects and the long-term implications of those projects. Information was received from 58 of the companies.

783 Cognitive Functioning of Elderly

Cognitive interviews were conducted by telephone or face-to-face in December 1996 with 62 persons aged 70 or older to test theoretical and applied issues related to the answering of cognitive functioning questions by elderly respondents. Seymour Sudman, SRL, was principal investigator for the professional services contract awarded to SRL by the National Center for Health Statistics for this work.

784 Prevention Center Behavioral Risk Factor Network

This project provided funding for Timothy Johnson, SRL, to participate in the newly organized Prevention Center Behavorial Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Network, which coordinates activities among university-based researchers who are conducting analyses of BRFSS data.
 
 

785 1996 Survey of Governmental Objectives

SRL contributed 30 interviews of Illinois residents for this study done in collaboration with 40 different survey organizations, each in a different state. The goal is to put together a national data set to be available through the University of California at Berkeley.

786 Hospital Discharge Planners

With funds from the National Institute on Aging, 500 telephone interviews with discharge planners at rural hospitals are being conducted for Mary Fennell, Brown University, to gain a better understanding of the organizational structures that link rural hospitals to long-term care providers.

787 Vehicle Arresting Barriers (VABs)

With funds from the Illinois Department of Transportation, Fred Coleman, UIUC Department of Civil Engineering, asked SRL to conduct face-to-face interviews with drivers stopped for trains at three railroad crossings at which experimental vehicle-arresting barriers would be set up. Three waves of data collection are planned: one prior to the installation of the barriers (conducted in spring 1997), one right after installation, and another one month later. The last two waves will be conducted in 1998 after the barriers are operational.

788 Addictions Disability Study

As of January 1997, substance abuse is no longer considered a disability by the Social Security Administration. This study, funded by the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA) and the State Systems Development Program, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is assessing the effects of the loss of SSI payments on the individuals who are now ineligible. Data collection, which began in late 1996, will continue in 6-month intervals through 1998. The principal investigator is Paul Goldstein, Treatment Alternatives for Special Clients, Inc.

789 Community Alternative Policing Strategies (CAPS)

For this annual telephone survey of Chicago residents to be completed in August 1997 for Susan Hartnett, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1,800 computer-assisted telephone interviews are to be conducted about community policing and crime in respondents’ neighborhoods. The source of funds is the National Institute of Justice.

790 Potential Use of APS

Timothy Johnson, SRL, is the principal investigator for this study being funded by the Illinois Coalition, a not-for-profit organization of leaders from academia, labor, industry, and government. Questionnaires were mailed to 200 research-and-development professionals (who were given the option to complete an interview by telephone or return the questionnaire by mail) to assess their desire and need for a program to open the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to technology-based companies in Illinois.

791 Women Consumer/Survivor Needs Assessment Survey

To provide data for a national survey on the needs of women who have been diagnosed with mental illness, three focus groups (one with Caucasian women, one with African American women, and one with Latinas) were conducted. The principal investigator for this survey, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was Jessica Jonikas, UIC Department of Psychiatry.

792 Survey of HIV/AIDS Service Providers

The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) provided the funds for CDPH staff members to be trained to moderate focus groups. The principal investigator is Susan Levy, Department of Community Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health.

793 Statewide Drug and Alcohol Study

For this study on needs for drug and alcohol treatment in the state, funded by the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA) and the State Systems Development Program, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the goal is to complete 8,000 random-digit-dial, computer-assisted, telephone interviews (400 interviews in each of the 20 geographic areas of the state). The principal investigator is Timothy Johnson, SRL.

794 Drug and Alcohol Survey of Welfare Recipients

In this study on the prevalence of substance use among welfare recipients in Illinois for Timothy Johnson, SRL, funded by the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA), 2,000 computer-assisted telephone interviews will be completed, in addition to computer-assisted personal interviews with respondents who do not have telephones or speak only Spanish.

795 Drug and Alcohol Survey of Mental Health Patients

Funded by the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA) and the State Systems Development Program, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the purpose of this study for Timothy Johnson, SRL, is to determine the prevalence of drug and alcohol use among institutionalized mental health patients in Illinois and to determine their treatment needs. A total of 600 on-site, computer-assisted paper interviews will be completed with randomly selected adults in mental health facilities.

796 Museum Educational Site License (MESL)

The Getty Information Institute has funded MESL to offer digital images to students at seven universities in courses on art history and art technology. Students filled out pre- and post-course questionnaires that asked about their technical backgrounds, attitudes about technology, and use of MESL products. SRL processed and analyzed these data for Beth Sandore, Digital Library Research Program, UIUC Library.

797 Casino Boat Study

This study is being funded by the Illinois Gaming Board, a unit of the Illinois Department of Revenue, to obtain profiles of patrons who gamble on Illinois' 13 casino boats and how patrons’ characteristics differ among those who gamble weekday day and evening and weekend day and evening. After SRL developed the sample design, a short questionnaire was handed out to randomly selected patrons. SRL is processing and analyzing the data from approximately 15,000 cases.

798 Community Alternative Policing Strategies (Part II)

Susan Hartnett, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, is continuing work on her study of community policing in Chicago. SRL is conducting the survey portion of this study, funded by the National Institute of Justice.

801 Ryan White Title I Guideline Development Project Year 3

This continuation of the Ryan White Title I project, funded by the Chicago Center for Health Systems Development, Inc., is the finalization of a system of service evaluation including agency peer review and consumer survey components to be implemented on an on-going basis. The project also includes convening a gathering of Title I provider and consumer groups to report on the guideline development process and initiating a review of client outcomes and considering possible critical pathways through the Title I service system. The principal investigator is Richard Warnecke, SRL.

Continuing Studies

These are studies that were continued from previous fiscal years. Some concluded in 1996-1997, others will continue on into 1997-1998.

692 Waste Management Survey of Illinois Higher Education Institutions

This study for the Illinois Waste Management and Research Center obtained information about the state of waste management (for municipal solid, nonhazardous, special, and hazardous waste) at 50 public and private higher education institutions in Illinois. In Phase 1, the campuses were telephoned to get general information and the names of respondents for Phase 2. In the second phase, a more detailed questionnaire was mailed. Funding came from the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources.

700 Technology Transfer to Aid Pollution Prevention and Waste Management

This mail survey for the Illinois Waste Management and Research Center gathered information from Illinois manufacturers in heavy industry on their waste control and management strategies and on their technology development and information needs concerning waste management and to assess to what extent the manufacturers are receptive to working with the state to increase their operational efficiency and reduce the amount of waste that they generate. Questionnaires were completed by the waste management officers at 1,000 manufacturing firms throughout Illinois who had been identified through telephone calls to the firms.

A series of conferences on health survey research methods have been held since 1975. For this sixth conference held in June 1995, Richard Warnecke, SRL, chair of the conference committee, obtained funding from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Cancer Institute, and the Health Resources Services Administration. Conference proceedings were published by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1996.

Karin Rosenblatt, UIUC Department of Community Health, is the principal investigator for this study funded by the National Institutes of Health to determine whether or not genital talc exposure causes ovarian cancer. The link between fertility drugs, oral contraceptive use, hormone use, gynecological operations, nutritional factors, and family history with the development of ovarian cancer will be examined. SRL will conduct face-to-face interviews with 450 non-Asian women aged 18 to 74 residing in Cook County and having epithelial tumors. Using a random-digit-dial sample, control cases will be recruited and matched to cancer cases by age, race/ethnicity, and geographic area. Face-to-face interviews will be conducted with 675 matched controls. The co-principal investigators are Faith Davis and Katherine Mallin, UIC School of Public Health.

744.2 Institutionalization of a Smoking Cessation Program

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded this study by Clara Manfredi, UIC Prevention Research Center, to examine the institutionalization of a smoking cessation program for women of childbearing age in public health clinics. Computer-assisted telephone interviews will be attempted with 800 potential respondents. The co-principal investigator is Richard Warnecke, SRL.

746.2 Aging, Status, and Sense of Control

Funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institutes of Health, this study for John Mirowsky and Catherine Ross, Ohio State University, seeks to specify and explain the relationship between age and changes in the sense of control. A national random-digit-dial sample of 2,510, including an oversample of persons aged 60 and older, was interviewed by telephone during the first year of the study. Tracking calls will be conducted during the second and third years, and re-interviews will take place in the fourth year.

751.2 Community, Crime, and Health Across the Life Course

Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, this four-year, computer-assisted telephone interview study for Catherine Ross, Ohio State University, and Chester Britt, Pennsylvania State University, will focus on the way community context affects the health and well-being of individuals across the life course. In the first year, 2,482 general public respondents were interviewed by telephone. They will be tracked by telephone in Years 2 and 3 and re-interviewed in Year 4.

760 Incontinence Pilot

This pilot was funded by the National Institutes of Health for Dee Fenner, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center to study incontinence among Hispanic women, in which participants were interviewed face-to-face on topics including family history, medical history, physical activity, fluid intake, and incontinence. They maintained a two-week incontinence diary, and each was asked to undergo a physical exam at a later date. In the pilot, 30 subjects kept diaries and were interviewed in either English or Spanish.

762 Harassment, Gender, and Drinking: An Epidemiologic Study

In this study funded by the National Institutes of Health, SRL will be mailing questionnaires on work and well-being to approximately 5,000 UIC employees in two waves. The principal investigator is Judith Richman, UIC Department of Psychiatry.

764 CHA Anti-Drug Initiatives

Funded by the National Institute of Justice, this study conducted for Susan Popkin, Abt Associates Inc., and Victoria Gwiasda, SRL, evaluated the Chicago Housing Authority's anti-drug initiative. Four waves of face-to-face interviews were conducted with approximately 550 respondents per wave in three public housing developments. Six waves of in-depth interviews with staff members and 12 residents in each development were also conducted.

765 CHA-HUD Resident Satisfaction Survey

SRL is a subcontractor to Susan Popkin, Abt Associates Inc., for this study on Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) resident satisfaction and management needs, which is being funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Face-to-face interviews will be conducted with about 1,175 randomly selected residents living in CHA family housing, elderly housing, and row houses.

766.2 Survey Research on Drug Use and Associated Behaviors

With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 600 face-to-face cognitive interviews with residents of the Chicago metropolitan area will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive interviewing strategy for the collection of self-reported drug use information. The principal investigators are Timothy Johnson and Seymour Sudman, SRL, and Michael Fendrich, UIC Department of Psychiatry.

769 NBLIC Community Intervention Study

SRL will conduct random-digit-dial interviews nationally with 1,600 African Americans aged 40 and older (half with males and half with females) for the evaluation program of the National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NBLIC), whose goal is to reduce the cancer mortality rate among African Americans by 25% by the year 2000. In 1999, a second telephone survey will be conducted to determine the effectiveness of NBLIC in disseminating information about cancer prevention. In addition, participant cards (brief questionnaires on knowledge of cancer prevention) will be distributed and collected at individual NBLIC coalitions at their events; a sample of respondents to these participant cards will also be interviewed by telephone in 1999. The project is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. The principal investigator is Louis Sullivan, president, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the evaluation director is Richard Warnecke, SRL.

770 Breast Cancer Research Program

Using the same questionnaire as Project 2 of SRL Study 729, six-month follow-up telephone interviews are being conducted with women previously contacted by the AMC Cancer Research Center project staff to assess the effectiveness of calls encouraging respondents to get mammograms. Main data collection is expected to result in 830 completes. Funding is from the U.S. Department of Defense. The principal investigator is Lori Crane, AMC Cancer Research Center.

772 Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded development of a questionnaire to collect data to provide an inventory of providers of teen pregnancy and pregnancy prevention services. F. G. Data Source trained Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) staff for principal investigator Nancy Tartt, ICAH, to conduct focus groups with in- and out-of-school youth, parents of teenagers, and community members. SRL developed a questionnaire that was mailed to service providers in three Chicago neighborhoods.

773 CDC/CIS Outreach Demonstration Project

SRL conducted an evaluation of the contribution of outreach coordinators to this demonstration project funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), which was piloted in Massachusetts, Arkansas, Illinois, and the state of Washington. The program sought to increase participation of women being underserved by its education and screening services. The evaluation sought to determine the outreach coordinators' ability to develop partnerships with local agencies reflective of the partnerships established at the federal and state levels. At each site, interviews were conducted with key individuals through whom partnerships were formed and interventions initiated. Information was also collected from data and reports that the Cancer Information Service and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provided to the National Cancer Institute. The principal investigator was Doris Garrett, IDPH, and the evaluation director was Richard Warnecke, SRL.

774 DCFS/DASA Treatment Outcome Study

In this study for Samuel Gillespie, Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (DASA), SRL evaluated the effectiveness of a DASA/Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)-enhanced drug rehabilitation program (the Initiative Program). Face-to-face interviews were conducted with three groups of DCFS female clients, all of whom were randomly selected: 150 who participated in the Initiative Program, 150 who participated in the regular DASA drug rehabilitation program, and 150 who were screened and found to be eligible for the Initiative Program but who did not participate in it. Three-quarters of the interviews were conducted in Chicago and the remainder in Rockford.

775 Ryan White Title I HIV Study-Year 2

With funds from the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Health Systems Development, Inc., SRL used the results of client focus groups to develop client satisfaction measures to evaluate the standards, developed in SRL Study 768, for 14 categories of service to be funded by Ryan White Title I monies. SRL also provided technical assistance in the implementation of evaluation techniques to improve services provided to people with HIV/AIDS. SRL developed all 14 consumer surveys and piloted one of them. Focus groups with a follow-up mail survey of about 20 CDPH staff members and 71 service providers assessed the grants management process and the working relationship between the providers and the funding agency. The principal investigator was Richard Warnecke, SRL, and the co-principal investigator was Nathan Linsk, UIC Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center.

776 1996 Outdoor Recreation Study

This statewide survey of outdoor recreation is being sponsored by the Illinois Department of Conservation (IDOC). Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,000 Illinois adults, stratified by residence in the city of Chicago, the Chicago suburbs, and downstate Illinois to assess their participation in outdoor recreation in Illinois and elsewhere. The principal investigator is Marla Gursh, IDOC.

1029 CIS Program Project Survey Core

SRL is conducting the survey work for this multiple-study program project of which the goal is to test intervention strategies relative to information dissemination and behavior change. In Project 1, "Five-a-Day for Better Health," callers to the Cancer Information Service (CIS) Hotline were interviewed on their nutritional habits and the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten each day. Four-week follow-ups to these interviews were conducted by telephone with 1,672 cases; of these, 1,286 were interviewed at 4 months. In addition, a 24-hour dietary recall pilot study was conducted by telephone. Project 2 focuses on the impact of an outcall from CIS or the AMC Cancer Research Center on women’s health habits and attitudes toward breast cancer and mammography 6 months after the out call. Women aged 50 or older were screened by telephone and put into an experimental or control group. SRL completed 6-month follow-ups with 2,168 of these women. Survey work for Project 3 consisted of conducting 6-month follow-up telephone interviews with African American smokers who called a CIS toll-free number in response to a smoking cessation media campaign. The program project principal investigator is Al Marcus, AMC Cancer Research Center and the survey core principal investigator is Richard Warnecke, SRL.

1499.4, 1599.5 Smoking Program Project

SRL study 1499.4 for the National Cancer Institute seeks to develop and evaluate a public health intervention that can be delivered by television and in clinics that will promote smoking cessation among female smokers with a high school or less education. It consists of three research studies and three supporting cores. In all projects, subjects are being followed up at 6-month intervals. The program project principal investigator, leadership and administration core principal investigator, evaluation and statistics core principal investigator, and project 1 principal investigator is Richard Warnecke, SRL. The communication core principal investigator is Dee Burton, Community Health Sciences, UIC School of Public Health. The project 2 principal investigator is Robin Mermelstein, Prevention Research Center, UIC School of Public Health. The project 3 principal investigator is Clara Manfredi, Prevention Research Center. For SRL Study 1599.5, also funded by the NCI for the multiyear smoking program project, data analysis continues. Richard Warnecke, SRL, is the principal investigator.
 
 
 
 

Table 1 Affiliations of Sponsors of New and Continuing Projects
 
  University of Illinois at Chicago

Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health

Department of Psychiatry

Institute for Juvenile Research

Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC)

UIC Psychiatric Institute

Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health

Prevention Research Center, School of Public Health

Survey Research Laboratory
 
 

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Community Health

UIUC Library

Survey Research Laboratory
 
 

Brown University

Case Western Reserve University

Morehouse School of Medicine

Northwestern University

Ohio State University

Pennsylvania State University

University of California at Berkeley
 
 

Chicago Center for Health Systems Development, Inc.

Chicago Department of Public Health

Chicago Housing Authority

Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse

Illinois Department of Conservation

Illinois Department of Public Health

Illinois Gaming Board

Illinois Waste Management and Research Center

Illinois State Systems Development Program, Center for Substance Abuse (CSAT)

Illinois State Geological Survey
 
 

Abt Associates Inc.

AMC Cancer Research Center

American Medical Association

Illinois Caucus on Adolescent Health

Illinois Coalition

Midwest Hispanic Aids Coalition

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke=s Medical Center

Treatment Alternatives for Special Clients (TASC), Inc

Service Projects

Service projects are small studies involving less than $5,000 in revenue. The majority of these projects are done for University faculty, staff, and students.

2291 Midwest Hispanic Aids Coalition

Training program for staff working with Hispanic communities on HIV prevention.

2292 Consultation, Health Policy and Administration

Consultation on questionnaire design for David Slobodkin, UIC Department of Health Policy and Administration.

3444 McKinley Health Center Needs

Consultation on data collection for Tom O’Rourke, UIUC Department of Community Health, for a study for the UIUC student health center.

7300 Ecosystem Management for Agricultural Watersheds

Mailing of letter and two questionnaires for Jody Rendziak, UIUC Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.

7303 ISGS Personnel Survey

Processing and evaluation of numeric data and verbatim comments from supervisor evaluations for William Shiltz, Illinois State Geological Survey.

7304 CDPH Evaluation Class

Chicago Department of Public Health provided funds for Richard Warnecke, SRL, to teach evaluation class to CDPH staff.

7305 Graduate Student Survey on Health Insurance and Health Care

Survey materials prepared for Tom O’Rourke, UIUC Department of Community Health, on study of graduate student opinions on health insurance and health care, funded by UIUC administration.
 
 

Project Development
 
 

A substantial portion of SRL staff time is devoted to developing budgets and research proposals for both internal and external clients. During 1996–1997, the Survey Research Laboratory staff was involved in the development of 23 new pending projects and continued development on 10 projects still pending as of July 1, 1996. Projects developed and funded during 1996–1997 are described in the previous SRL Studies section. Projects that were still pending as of June 30, 1997, whether new in 1996–1997 or continued from previous year, are described in the following two sections. Table 2 lists those projects that were no longer under development as of June 30, 1997.

New Pending Projects

The 23 projects that began development in 1996–1997 represent efforts on behalf of 13 University of Illinois staff members (Chicago and Urbana-Champaign campuses), two other academic institutions, two government agencies, and six other organizations.

9749 Cancer Information Service, 2

Survey work for three projects on cancer intervention strategies. Principal Investigator: Al Marcus, AMC Cancer Research Center.

9755 Probable Cause Acoustic Surveillance System Survey

A face-to-face study to evaluate the impact on perceived crime and safety as a result of an acoustic surveillance system to be implemented in CHA housing. Principal Investigator: Ed Kozak, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute.

9759 NCI Training Grant

Graduate training program to hire 3 doctoral students and 3 post-doctoral students, to be funded by the National Cancer Institute. Principal Investigator: Richard Warnecke, SRL.

9760 ACGME Survey of Directors of Residency Programs

Develop survey instruments to gather information about the evaluation practices used by residency programs in 27 core speciality areas. Principal Investigator: Susan Swing, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

9761 Nutrition, Health and Well-Being

Data management and data entry for clinical trial meant to track dietary intake of African Americans and the effects their diet has on their health. Principal Investigator: Shiriki Kumanyika, UIC Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

9767 Survey of Foster Parents and Children

Questionnaire development and face-to-face interviewing of foster parent/child pairs to assess the quality of care that foster children who are in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services are receiving. Principal Investigator: John O’Connell, UIUC School of Social Work.

9770 Diabetes Registry Study

Program a questionnaire (in English and Spanish)and provide technical support for population-based registry of insulin-dependent African American and Hispanic children in Chicago. Principal Investigator: Betty Lipton, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UIC School of Public Health.

9771 Alcohol Treatment Needs Survey

Conduct the survey portion of a pilot study attempting to prove that it is possible to collect accurate data concerning alcohol treatment needs via telephone interviews rather than the more expensive face-to-face interviews. Principal Investigator: Richard Labrie, Harvard National Technical Center for Substance Abuse Needs Assessment.

9772 Women and Asthma

Questionnaire design, interviewer training, and sampling for study to assess matters related to prevalence of asthma in adult women in Chicago. Principal Investigator: Alice Dan, UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender.

9775 Assessing Women’s Standards of Prevention

Conduct two city-wide focus groups and prepare literature review. Principal Investigator: Bob Rybicki, Chicago.Department of Public Health.

9776 Cognition and Informed Consent Study

Cognitive interviews to develop a brief questionnaire used to measure understanding of the consent procedure used to make participants in cancer clinical trials aware of the study in which they are participating. Principal Investigator: Richard Warnecke, SRL.

9779 CTA RDD Rider Study

Revision and programming of survey instrument used in 1995 to assess CTA customer satisfaction. Principal Investigator: Paul Mextatos, Chicago Transit Authority.

9782 Women in Trades Study

Questionnaire development and analysis on three questionnaires: one for women in skilled manufacturing, one for employers, and one for training providers. Principal Investigator: Joan Fitzgerald, UIC Great Cities Institute.

9784 Continuing Education Needs Survey

Data entry for 750 to 2,250 completed interviews. Principal Investigator: Ann O’Sullivan UIC College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education.

9785 Housing Accessibility Study

Develop appropriate sampling design and plan for study on accessibility of multifamily unit buildings. Principal Investigator: Kate Brown, UIUC Building Research Council, School of Architecture.

9787 Veteran’s Administration Management Evaluation Study

Principal Investigator: Jim Thompson, UIC Department of Public Administration.

9788 Evaluation of Victim-Witness Assistance Program

Principal Investigator: Mark Myrent, Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

9789 IDOT Road Signs

Principal Investigator: Siim Soot, UIC Geography Program.

9790 Cancer Information Study

Computer-assisted telephone interview study. Principal Investigator: Clara Manfredi, UIC Prevention Research Center.

9792 Housing Trust Fund Study

Principal Investigator: Charles Hoch, UIC Great Cities Institute Scholar and Professor, Urban Planning and Policy.
 

9793 STP Member Survey

Questionnaire design for membership survey for Society of Toxicological Pathologists (STP). Principal Investigator: Stephanie Dickinson, STP.

9794 Cancer Prevention Control Surveillance, Master Agreement

Proposal submitted to the National Cancer Institute for SRL’s future consideration as MAA.

9795 Treatment Needs in Illinois

Design of telephone survey for enhanced and standard telephone surveys of substance dependence treatment needs in Illinois. Principal Investigator: William McAuliffe, North Charles Research and Planning Group.

Continuing Pending Projects

These projects began development prior to July 1, 1996 but were still pending as of June 30, 1997.

9642 Homeless Data Secondary Analysis

Principal Investigator: Timothy Johnson, SRL.

9699 High Risk Substance Abuse

Conduct survey portion of studies of alcohol and substance abuse among special adolescent populations in Illinois. Principal Investigator: Sam Gillespie, Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse.

9711 Brain Cancer Study of Cellular Phones and Acoustic Neuromas

Conduct telephone survey portion of case-control study to evaluate the potential association between exposure to cellular telephones and subsequent development of acoustic neuromasa. Principal Investigator: Faith Davis, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatstics, UIC School of Public Health.

9716 Probationers Substance Abuse

Conduct a mixed-mode telephone and face-to-face survey of a statewide sample of adults currently on probation, regarding their needs for substance abuse treatment. Principal Investigators: James Swartz, Treatment Alternatives for Special Clients, Inc. and Sam Gillespie, Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse.

9718 Austin Community Association Survey

Questionnaire design and data collection. Principal Investigator: Nicol Turner, Northwestern University.

9720 Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Domestic Violence Measures

Develop a survey instrument and conduct 300 cognitive interviews to study cultural variations in responses to survey questions concerned with the lifetime violence experiences of women and the use of mental health services. Principal Investigator: Carole Warshaw, UIC Department of Psychiatry.

9721 Community Area Survey

Questionnaire development and telephone and face-to-face interviewing for survey of three communities in Chicago to track neighborhood conditions, such as employment, economics, policy issues. Principal Investigator: Richard Warnecke, SRL.

9723 Assessment of Treatment for Victims of Domestic Violence

Develop and administer mail survey of approximately 800 mental health professionals to investigate their practices for treating victims of domestic violence. Principal Investigator: Carole Warshaw, UIC Department of Psychiatry.

9726 Domestic Violence and Welfare

Prepare sample and interview approximately 400 women in facilities for victims of domestic violence across the state of Illinois. Principal Investigators: Alice Dan, UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender, and Stephanie Riger, UIC Women’s Studies.

9748 Overreporting of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Behaviors: Cognitive Aspects of Reporting Cancer Screening

Face-to-face study of general population of women aged 40 and over to assess the validity of reports of health behavior. Principal Investigator: Seymour Sudman, SRL.
 
 

Table 2 Projects No Longer Under Development as of June 30, 1997
 
 

Number, Title, Principal Investigator(s)

Staff Activities
 
 

The citations in this section show the considerable professional activities of the staff of the Survey Research Laboratory. In 1996–1997, SRL staff published books, reports for clients, articles in referred journals and professional proceedings, and chapters in research and textbooks, as well as editing journals and books. Thirteen staff members gave presentations at professional conferences and some presented lectures and workshops. Five staff members hold positions in professional organizations. Staff are also involved on many University and community committees and do consulting and other professional service work. This record reflects the high commitment of SRL’s staff to their own professional development and to improving the quality of survey research.

Publications

Jane Burris

Victoria E. Gwiasda

Lynn A. Hamilton

Timothy P. Johnson

Diane P. O’Rourke

Jennifer A. Parsons

Elizabeth Severns

Seymour Sudman

Jonathan B. VanGeest

Richard B. Warnecke

Conference Presentations

Jane Burris

Gloria Chapa-Resendez

Victoria E. Gwiasda

Lynn A. Hamilton

Ann Hatalsky

Timothy P. Johnson

Risé D. Jones

Katherine Lind

Diane P. O’Rourke

Vince Parker

Jennifer A. Parsons

Seymour Sudman

Richard B. Warnecke

Conference Organization

Diane P. O’Rourke

Seymour Sudman

Richard B. Warnecke

Other Conference Activity

Diane P. O’Rourke

Other Presentations

Timothy P. Johnson

Diane P. O’Rourke

Seymour Sudman

Positions Held in Professional Organizations

Timothy P. Johnson

Diane P. O’Rourke

Jennifer A. Parsons

Seymour Sudman

Richard B. Warnecke

Editorial Activities

Timothy P. Johnson

Diane P. O’Rourke

Seymour Sudman

Survey Research Newsletter

The Survey Research Laboratory published three issues of Survey Research newsletter in 1996B97. The newsletter has a circulation of approximately 1,200 individuals and organizations worldwide. It serves as an instrument of communication among and about academic and not-for-profit survey research organizations, listing their current research activities and announcing conferences, calls for papers, job openings, changes in personnel, and other items of interest. The newsletter announces new publications in the area of survey research, with an emphasis on methodological publications. A list of approximately 100 academic and not-for-profit survey organizations is maintained and updated regularly by the newsletter staff. It has been published biennially in the newsletter and is available on the SRL World Wide Web site (http://www.srl.uic.edu). Survey Research is financially self-supporting through subscriptions and contributions.
 
 

For 1996–1997, patrons (those who contribute $500 yearly) were Abt Associates Inc.; the American Association for Public Opinion Research; the U.S. Bureau of the Census; the Institute for Policy Research, University of Cincinnati; the Institute for Survey Research, Temple University; Mathematica Policy Research; National Center for Health Statistics; the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago; the Research Triangle Institute; Response Analysis Corporation; Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association; the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan; Survey Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Westat, Inc. Diane O=Rourke, SRL, is managing editor and Andrea Van Proyen is production editor.
 
 

Advising

SRL continued its policy of providing free advice regarding survey methodology to University faculty, staff, and students in 1996–1997. Staff members spent 121 hours on these services, with 58 hours provided to the Chicago campus community and 63 hours to the Urbana-Champaign campus.

Committees

Gloria Chapa-Resendez

Timothy P. Johnson

Seymour Sudman

Richard B. Warnecke

Consulting, Other Professional Services

Richard B. Warnecke

Grants and Contracts

Four staff members of the Survey Research Laboratory were awarded grants and/or contracts as principal investigators during 1996–1997.

Elizabeth Hauser

Timothy P. Johnson

Seymour Sudman

Richard B. Warnecke

Appendix A: SRL Staff as of June 30, 1997
 
 

Tony Burnett, Administrative Secretary

Jane Burris,* Research Assistant

Gloria Chapa-Resendez, Senior Project Coordinator

Cayge Clements, Field Coordinator

Eboni Craig, Account Technician

Joseph Day, Field Supervisor

Ilker Erdogmus, Network Analyst

Isabel Farrar, Project Coordinator

Olga Figman, Research Data Analyst

Stephanie Goldman, Data Reduction Coordinator

Nancy Golumbia, Data Reduction Coordinator

Martin Glusberg, Operations

Victoria Gwiasda, Coordinator of Research Programs

Lynn Hamilton, Senior Project Coordinator

Marguerite Harris, Assistant Director for Financial Operations

Ann Hatalsky,* Sampling Manager

Elizabeth Hauser, Project Coordinator

Sara Hoag, Research Assistant

R. Scott Jensen, Field Supervisor

Timothy Johnson, Acting Director

Risé Jones, Postdoctoral Student

Judy Kruger, Research Assistant

Katherine Lind, Project Coordinator

Elise Martel, Research Assistant

Terry Mashalla, Field Supervisor

Osvaldo Morera, Postdoctoral Student

Diane O’Rourke,* Coordinator of Research Programs

Vince Parker, Field Manager

Jennifer Parsons, Project Coordinator

Bernita Rusk,* Staff Secretary

Elizabeth Severns, Project Coordinator

Eunjae Shim,* Research Assistant

Ragavendra Shripathi, Research Assistant

Abigail Silva, Research Assistant

Eola Smith, Clerk II

Terrence Stewart, Research Assistant

Seymour Sudman,* Deputy Director

Les Townsend, Field Supervisor

Jonathan VanGeest, Visiting Project Coordinator

Andrea Van Proyen,* Coordinator of Information Services

William Wagner, Research Assistant

Richard Warnecke, Research Professor

Delores White, Field Coordinator

Michelle White, Business Manager
 
 
 
 

*Urbana Office

Appendix B: Faculty Advisory Committees

Chicago Campus
 
 

Vaughn Blankenship, Director, Public Administration Ph.D. Program

Richard Campbell, Professor, Department of Sociology

Noel Chávez, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

Barry Chiswick, Chair, Department of Economics

Alice Dan, Director, Center for Research on Women and Gender

Joseph Flaherty, Deputy Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Brian Flay, Director, Prevention Research Center

Paul Levy, Director, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Patricia Wright, Associate Director, Natalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Development

Urbana Campus
 
 

Lee Crandall, Head, Department of Community Health

James Gentry, Professor, Department of Finance

James Kluegel, Head, Department of Sociology

William McKinney, Head, Department of Leisure Studies

Peter Nardulli, Head, Department of Political Science

Harry Triandis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology

Jon van Es, Professor, Department of Human and Community Development
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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