PMID- 20648796
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100818
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0083-2014 (Print)
IS  - 0083-2014 (Linking)
IP  - 49
DP  - 2010 Mar
TI  - Design and operation of the national home health aide survey: 2007-2008.
PG  - 1-94
AB  - This report provides an overview of the National Home Health Aide Survey (NHHAS), 
      the first national probability survey of home health aides. NHHAS was designed to 
      provide national estimates of home health aides who provided assistance in 
      activities of daily living (ADLs) and were directly employed by agencies that 
      provide home health and/or hospice care. This report discusses the need for and 
      objectives of the survey, the design process, the survey methods, and data 
      availability. METHODS NHHAS, a multistage probability sample survey, was 
      conducted as a supplement to the 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey 
      (NHHCS). Agencies providing home health and/or hospice care were sampled, and 
      then aides employed by these agencies were sampled and interviewed by telephone. 
      Survey topics included recruitment, training, job history, family life, client 
      relations, work-related injuries, and demographics. NHHAS was virtually identical 
      to the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey of certified nursing assistants 
      employed in sampled nursing homes with minor changes to account for differences 
      in workplace environment and responsibilities. RESULTS From September 2007 to 
      April 2008, interviews were completed with 3,416 aides. A public-use data file 
      that contains the interview responses, sampling weights, and design variables is 
      available. The NHHAS overall response rate weighted by the inverse of the 
      probability of selection was 41 percent. This rate is the product of the weighted 
      first-stage agency response rate of 57 percent (i.e., weighted response rate of 
      59 percent for agency participation in NHHCS times the weighted response rate of 
      97 percent for agencies participating in NHHCS that also participated in NHHAS) 
      and the weighted second-stage aide response rate of 72 percent to NHHAS.
FAU - Bercovitz, Anita
AU  - Bercovitz A
AD  - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, 
      USA.
FAU - Moss, Abigail J
AU  - Moss AJ
FAU - Sengupta, Manisha
AU  - Sengupta M
FAU - Harris-Kojetin, Lauren D
AU  - Harris-Kojetin LD
FAU - Squillace, Marie R
AU  - Squillace MR
FAU - Emily, Rosenoff
AU  - Emily R
FAU - Branden, Laura
AU  - Branden L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Vital Health Stat 1
JT  - Vital and health statistics. Ser. 1, Programs and collection procedures
JID - 0414006
SB  - IM
MH  - Health Care Surveys/*methods
MH  - Home Health Aides/statistics & numerical data/*supply & distribution
MH  - Humans
MH  - Information Dissemination
MH  - Interviews as Topic
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Research Design
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - United States
MH  - Videodisc Recording
EDAT- 2010/07/23 06:00
MHDA- 2010/08/19 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/23 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/08/19 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Vital Health Stat 1. 2010 Mar;(49):1-94.