Fwd: [HRS Data Alert] Recent HRS Data Releases and Updates

View this email in your browser News and Announcements Recent HRS Data Releases and Updates The following data products are now available on the HRS website:   New Data Release The Childhood Family and Childhood Health Aggregated Data Version 1.0 is now available. These data were aggregated using retrospective reports provided by HRS respondents or their proxy in different waves of biennial core panel interviews from 1992 to 2016. All information has previously been released for public use separately for each biennial wave and in different sections within each wave. The data file contains 74 variables and includes 38,654 respondents. Items on childhood background (family and health) were first introduced to the survey in 1998 and were included in the baseline interview in subsequent cohort enrollment years. The items were designed to be collected only once from each participant either when they first entered the study or in the core wave when the questions were asked for the first time. Additional information about the aggregation process and measures is provided in the data description for this data product.   HRS Data Updates The 2012 Final Core Version 3.0 data was updated in Section I to correct data for the variable NPMELIG (eligibility for physical measures). All other variables remain intact. Langa-Weir Classification of Cognitive Function (Version 2) now includes 2016 data. Questions, comments or concerns about the above data products should be directed to the HRS Help Desk at hrsquestions@umich.edu    RAND HRS Data Updates  RAND HRS Detailed Imputations File 2016 (V2) now includes medical expenditure imputations for Exit Interviews, business income reported in Wave 6 and subsequent waves, changes to IRA withdrawal calculation and standardization of "max" bracket amounts. RAND HRS Longitudinal File 1992-2016 (V2) now includes physical measures variables, variables derived from the HRS Exit Interviews and other adjustments, improvements and corrections to the data and documentation. RAND HRS Fat File 2016 (h16f2a) was updated using HRS 2016 Core Final V2.0 data. The RAND Center for the Study of Aging creates  RAND HRS data products under subcontract from HRS.  The HRS and the RAND products are supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA).  Questions, comments or concerns regarding the RAND HRS files should be directed to randhrshelp@rand.org. Health and Retirement Study Survey Research Center 426 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 The Health and Retirement Study is supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration.

Fwd: Earth week panel on COVID and environment/society

FYI:

The Gund Institute will host a virtual event, Sustainability in the Pandemic Era, on April 21 from 2:30-4 p.m. This Earth Week panel discussion will showcase perspectives on COVID-19 from Gund Fellows and Affiliates, including reports on preliminary research, and provide a forum for sharing promising ideas and opportunities for collaborative work. Topics include food insecurity, disease ecology, mental health, Sustainable Development Goals, rebuilding our economy and more.

 

To participate in the event, please register via Zoom. To suggest additional topics or speakers, please email Taylor Ricketts.

 

Confirmed panelists include:

 

--Meredith Niles (Fellow, CALS), who is co-leading a national survey on food insecurity related to the pandemic.

--Chris Danforth (Fellow, Complex Systems) who has tracked coronavirus trends on social media, and the pandemic's dramatic reduction of global happiness.

--Stephanie Seguino (Fellow, CAS), who is interested in equity issues regarding patterns of infection, as well as impacts of economic stimulus.

--Brendan Fisher (Fellow, RSENR), who is analyzing the pandemic's effect on global progress toward the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

--Luz de Wit (Postdoctoral Fellow, RSENR), who studies the ecology of novel infectious diseases, including how they jump from other species to people.

--Jon Erickson (Fellow, RSENR), who is working on economic inequality, rebuilding a sustainable economy, and the pandemic's climate impacts.

------
vermont complex systems center
home: http://www.uvm.edu/~cmplxsys/
twitter: http://twitter.com/uvmcomplexity
facebook: http://on.fb.me/ouTb43

Graduate Study Certificate: http://bit.ly/wEyggC

Fast Grants for COVID-19 research

This opportunity is for scientists at academic institutions currently working on a COVID-19 related projects and in need of funding.  Fast Grants is inviting applications for Fast Grants from $10k to $500k.  Decisions are made in under 48 hours.   Application period opened April 7^th, there are no deadlines listed but first awards will be issued starting April 12.

See website for quick application and more information - https://fastgrants.org/

Fast Grants is a part of Emergent Ventures, a project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 

Survey on public information needs regarding COVID-19

Dear Colleagues

As the world struggles to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, the value of clear information and the dangers of misinformation have become clear. In fact, misinformation has always been one of the greatest challenges of pandemic infection. Only by understanding public misconceptions, planned compliance with prevention practices like social distancing, and preferred information sources can we effectively ensure maximum public participation and minimize infection spread and death.

A research team at Penn State Health, led by Dr. Robert P. Lennon has developed an online questionnaire that measures public understanding of COVID-19. It has successfully been used in Pennsylvania to identify public knowledge and intent to follow recommendations in the largest pandemic information survey to date. The results identified demographic groups with poor knowledge and lower intent to follow recommendations, enabling State government and health care institutions to specifically address the most critical information in the most needful groups.

CHIME has partnered with Penn State Health to bring this powerful tool to a global scale. The questionnaire has been translated in to over 15 languages and will be distributed by Social Media and partner promoters. A robust worldwide response will give us critical information on populations that do not understand how to protect themselves and others and how to get them the information they need to help keep us all safe now. It also allows people from around the world to describe their experiences in their own words, literally creating a historical document of Life in the Time of COVID.

The value of this survey is directly proportional to the number of participants – we need your help not only in distributing the survey link, but in explaining to the people you influence the importance of active participation.

The study team can be reached at myCOVIDsurvey@psu.edu

Please Take this quick survey & encourage others: covidsurvey.psu.edu/c/beatcovid

Send link throughout the world. It has been translated into 15 languages.

Mack

Mack T. Ruffin IV, MD, MPH                                                                                     

Professor and Chair

Department of Family and Community Medicine

Penn State Health, Hershey Medical Center

500 University Drive, Mail Code: H154

Hershey, PA 17033-0850

Cell: 734-476-7806

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: Apr 9, 2020

Present:   Claudia Abbiati, Levi Bonnell, Justine Dee, Nancy Gell, Juvena Hitt, Ben Littenberg, Jen Oshita, Gail Rose, Connie van Eeghen, Adam Sprouse-Blum, Marian Wingood

1.                   Warm Up: Strategies for Zooming in and not getting frozen to a chair all day

2.                   Justine: Recruitment Change on IRB Protocol

a.       Switch to telehealth has made the protocol different, plus need to increase recruitment

                                                   i.      Completed 7 subjects out of 84 needed for power calculation (recruitment target is 100)

                                                 ii.      Opening population to any individual who has experienced physical or emotional trauma and has pain

1.       Determined by “Life events” checklist

2.       There is no defined threshold on the checklist; any item identified is a positive

                                               iii.      Pain: any pain?

1.       Not diabetic peripheral neuropathy, or dental pain, or IBS

2.       Yes: chronic musculoskeletal pain

                                               iv.      Recruit through public forums and provider referrals

                                                 v.      There is sufficient chronic pain in the population to yield enough participants for the study

                                               vi.      Outcome is physical function, not pain; trauma status will show up in this stratification

b.       Part of the protocol includes physical manipulation; could be self-application of cold or heat at home

                                                   i.      This works as an attention control; it is not the intervention

                                                 ii.      Doxy.me as the virtual platform of choice (not Zoom) – don’t restrict to one; does need video component

                                               iii.      What if participants don’t have access to heat/ice

                                               iv.      Consider “self-mobilization” or 15 minutes of stretching

                                                 v.      Might not be “usual care” but “bio-medical-based care” or “bio-psycho-social care”

                                               vi.      Remember to update ClinicalTrials.gov

                                              vii.      How might this change the research question?

1.       Is this a temporary move to telehealth?

2.       When physical restrictions on our society are lifted, will you go back to the original method?

3.                   4/16: Bring a piece of “home art” to share

a.       Future topics TBD