Healthcare for Communities

Collected By: UCLA/RAND NIMH Center for Research on Quality in Managed Care; Robert Wood Johnson

• Data collected from households, employers, and public agency administrators with secondary data sources.
• Nationally representative sample (9,585 respondents) with a large percentage of persons with ADM need
• Wave I fielded October 1997 through December 1998
• Wave II fielded in 2000-2001

• Health And Daily Activities: General health and daily activities; Depression;  Chronic conditions; Height/weight
• Mental Health: Generalized anxiety disorder; Depression; Lifetime mania; Psychoticism screener;  Panic screener
• Alcohol And Drugs: Alcoholism screener; Drug abuse and dependency; Recent drug use;  Medications
• Health insurance: Access, utilization, quality of care barriers and satisfaction; Labor market, income and wealth; Life stress/ victimization, crime, community violence; Alternative medicine

Documentation: http://www.hsrcenter.ucla.edu/research/hcc.shtml

Indicative Studies/Presentations:

• Braden, J. B., Zhang, L., Zimmerman, F. J., & Sullivan, M. D. (2008) Employment Outcomes of Persons With a Mental Disorder and Comorbid Chronic Pain. Psychiatr Serv, 59, 878-885
• Mechanic, D. & Bilder, S. (2004). Treatment of People with Mental Illness: A Decade-Long Perspective. Health Affairs, 23(4), 84-95.
• Bao, Y., Sturm, R., & Croghan, T. W. (2003). A National Study of the Effect of Chronic Pain on the Use of Health Care by Depressed Persons. Psychiatr Serv, 54, 693-697