QDS™ Newsletter Summer 2006
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1. merged into a Microsoft Word document that can be printed Visit http Muno NOVA Research Company 4600 East West Highway Suite 700 Bethesda MD 20814 3414 301 986 1891 fax 301 986 4931 Peggy L Young NOVA President CEO ext 101 ODS Sales sales novaresearch com Ray Butler ext 157 Tech Support support novaresearch com Ben Neal ext 106 and used during the consultation First automatic variables are converted into intelligible short forms suitable for merging Then the report element is adapted for use as a merge source document The team designed a macro button that clinicians can use to create single sheet clinic pro formas that display data from the questionnaire These data then become part of the patient s clinical record The research team found that the questionnaire his team developed works very well under both CASI and CAPI methods and that patients are generally very positive about computerized interviews they believe this study could change the way clinicians and patients interact well into the future Dr Richens was very pleased with the excellent support his team received from NOVA Research Company while they were designing and building the questionnaire He truly appreciated the invariably prompt responses to e mails requesting help especially when they were implementing new features like the mail merge system For contact information visit http www ucl ac uk sexual health st2. Others would do CAPI pretty well but not export data into a usable file format Still others were pretty functional but VERY difficult to learn were very expensive or did x not support warehousing data from different sources None produced surveys in a usable format automatically and none provided for sound recording in a natural voice QDS has everything from start to finish Survey design support database design ACASI CAPI HAPI including sound files data entry warehousing exporting to multiple file formats multiple version management multisite and multi interviewer support and on and on For a very reasonable price Barbara Estrada El Rio Santa Cruz Community Health Center Tucson AZ QDS 2 5 Enhancements continued from Page 1 Interview Logic A new numeric function Random returns a random number within a specified range Edit elements support the ability to loop back to the last data element displayed This allows the interviewer or subject to return to a location that may vary during the course of an interview Edit elements support the ability to launch an external application during the course of an interview such as a Web browser or word processor HAPI and CAPI support an auto probe feature probes can be displayed automatically at the first visit to a question The interviewer can toggle this feature on and off during the course of an interview Reports Summary reports gener
3. IDS Conference United States Conference on AIDS American Public Health Association Washington DC Washington DC Washington DC New Orleans LA Toronto ON Hollywood CA Boston MA ODS Newsletter Summer 2006 User Profile Dr John Richens continued from page 3 appropriate sampling for infection increased diagnosis of STDs better identification of reproductive health issues in women higher levels of patient and provider satisfaction and improved patient flow After graduating from Cambridge University Dr Richens worked as general physician for 7 years in Papua New Guinea and moved into HIV and STD research on returning to London in 1990 He thinks that working in the field of sexual health is fascinating because one can learn so much about society s attitudes toward sexual behavior and its consequences He has worked extensively in Asia and Africa on the design and evaluation of intervention projects for the control of STDs and HIV and he develops training programs on clinical and public health aspects of STD HIV control Since HIV has become one of the world s most serious health problems he believes that searching for new strategies to deal with the spread of AIDS is vital One of the novel solutions Dr Richens and his team has implemented for CASHI is the ability to immediately incorporate data from QDS interviews into reports for clinical staff After an interview is completed QDS data are mail
4. NOVA Research Company Summer 2006 QODS NEWSLETTER Questionnaire Development System Summary of Enhancements in the Upcoming ODS Version 2 5 A major upgrade of QDS vVersion 2 5 will be released in summer 2006 NOVA has programmed an extensive list of new features most of which were requested by QDS users Build Enhancements WE A new build option suppresses the prompt to view the audio script file WE A new build option supports inclusion of audio files associated with Pick One Check Each Yes No and Gender items in the audio script file E A new build option allows the user to select a default speaker for the ACASI DECtalk text to speech engine Screen Layout and Appearance E Designers can customize text displayed on the title bar of a probe dialog box W Pictures can now be displayed on information screens and question screens in HAPI CAPI and ACASI Supported graphic formats include BMP JPG GIE ICO icon EMF enhanced metafile and PNG portable network graphics E HAPI supports a new option that allows interviewers to toggle the layout of date and time screens during the course of an interview The screen can contain a single input field or multiple input fields with multiple fields each field accepts a single subcomponent of the date or time information E HAPI supports a new option that allows interviewers to modify the screen layout to accommodate landscape orientatio
5. aff members richens htm User s Manual Available Online faresearch com Products qds for a free download How Are You Using QDS We would like to know Please e mail Paul Young at PAYoung novaresearch com with a description or story of your unique application of ODS don t forget to include citations for any published articles based on your work A profile may be posted on our Web site or featured in the next ODS Newsletter ODS Newsletter
6. ated at the end of an automated interview now include interviewer comments The Warehouse Manager Interview Details property sheet now supports a Print function E A new function in the Warehouse Manager outputs a single interview as an RTF document Data Management M The Design Studio allows the designer to designate that an automatic variable should be ignored during export from the Warehouse E Warehouse Manager supports a new feature that allows the data manager to manually exclude specific variables from export In addition the data manager can save manual settings and reuse them for subsequent export operations E The Warehouse Manager data corrections log is now an integral part ofa data warehouse file and has been enhanced to include several additional fields for each correction a date time stamp the name of the data manager the reason for the change the original data the revised data and any additional comments the data manager wants to add to the log The log now also includes an entry for every delete and undelete ODS Newsletter Summer 2006 QDS User Profile Dr John Richens Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research University College London ust as in the rest of the world sexually transmitted infections are on the increase in the United Kingdom Dr John Richens Principal Investigator Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research is examining communication methods between health
7. ds during the exam and spend less time asking for routine background information and 3 administrators can streamline clinic services and make the shift to electronic records Dr Richens anticipates that if his research validates the usefulness of CASI in clinical practice this approach could become a standard component of everyday health care Subjects recruited into the study will include men and women of all sexual orientations HIV positive subjects and subjects from ethnic minority groups Dr Richens plans to recruit 2 500 patients over a 10 month period and has already reached 70 percent of that goal These subjects will be divided into three groups one will perform a CASI prior to seeing a clinician the second will have a CAPI version of the same interview with a clinician and the third will see a clinician according to current clinical practice A subset of patients involved in the trial will be invited to participate in exit interviews prior to leaving the clinic to investigate reactions to the different interview methods Dr Richens and his team hope to show that use of CASI leads to greater levels of disclosure of risky sexual behavior more continued on page 4 Where to See QDS July 8 12 UICC World Cancer Congress July 10 12 NCHS Data Users Conference July 12 15 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health August 10 13 August 14 19 September 21 25 November 6 8 American Psychological Association International A
8. n or a square screen WE CAPI and ACASI now display a vertical scroll bar in the question area when the text is too large to fit within the field Audio Improvements mM ACASI has been enhanced to include the latest version of DECtalk version 5 00 E ACASI can automatically load the appropriate DECtalk dictionary based on information in the control file no need to launch a unique module for each language version of a survey continued on page 2 http www novaresearch com Products qds 2006 NOVA Research Company Tips and Tricks It is possible to customize nearly every aspect of your ops interviews You can even adjust most of the default settings You can change the label of any of the Special Response buttons for automated interviews To change the wording for the Don t Know Refused or Not Applicable buttons go to the Language Translations menu in the Design Studio and select the Edit button Enter your alternate wording on the Responses tab This wording will then be substituted throughout the entire questionnaire For example you might prefer Declined to Respond as an alternate for Refused in your own interview Summer 2006 ILOVE QDS I did a pretty exhaustive search about 4 years ago and gt found thatall majorcompetitors were missing one or morecomponents OQDS Users included with QDS Some would have a great data entry module Corner but no way to do ACASI CAPI
9. workers and patients at two London sexual health clinics the Mortimer Market Centre and the Courtyard Clinic St George s Hospital For his computer assisted sexual health interviewing CASHI study Richens and staff are comparing three interview techniques face to face interviews computer assisted personal interviews CAPI using QDS and computer assisted self interviews CASI using QDS They will compare rates of disclosure of sensitive information about sexual behavior and examine the impact on disease diagnosis and testing The study is funded by the Medical Research Council the United Kingdoms equivalent to the U S National Institutes of Health Face to face interviewing remains the norm in sexual health clinics despite growing evidence that individuals may prefer to disclose information about their sexual behavior in ways they feel to be less threatening Research on sexual behavior in the community has demonstrated that subjects feel more comfortable with CASI than face to face interviews For questions about certain aspects of sexual behavior patients are more likely to reveal important information to a computer than to a health worker Dr Richens believes that the benefits of using CASI in a clinical setting are threefold 1 patients can utilize time normally spent in the waiting room performing their own interviews 2 health providers can focus more on patients concerns expectations and information nee
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