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

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51

34

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15

30

45

60

75

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Batch

M1-1M1-2

ILLINOIS PRAMS STAFF