PRIMARY INVESTIGATORS: Bernice Pescosolido & J. Scott Long
N and Sampling Procedures: 298 randomly selected adult Indianapolis residents (100 Caucasian, 99 African-Americans and 99 Hispanic-Americans) participated in in-person interviews.
Issues/Questions Addressed: This SRP was focused on the issue of health care reform. One of the basic linch-pins underlying reform is a focus on evidence-based medicine, that is, whether or not medical care improves the lives of individuals receiving care. In researchers' and health care organization adminstrators' search for how to measure this, they have focused on a series of psychometrically valid instruments, for example in the SF-12 developed by John Ware and his coleagues at Rand. While measures such as these have been tested for validity and reliability, they appear to be insensitive to differences in social class and race/ethnic populations values and meanings. This SRP takes one of the most widely used "quality of life" instruments in the arena of mental health, Athony Lehman's QoL tool and examines the importance of each item for these different groups.
SRP2000cdbk.wpd (WordPerfect copy of the codebook)
Available to Public: 2005
