Illinois Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate

1. Illinois Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate IDPH/ICHS 6/2000 Rocio Fuller

2. 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 Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate

3. Draw Monthly Sample • Previous Procedure • New Procedure • Advantages: Minimum waiting period between batches Better addresses for mothers More time to work with each batch

4. 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

5. Illinois Cornerstone • State listing of mothers who have received public services WIC IMMUNIZATION FAMILY CASE MANAGEMENT DIABETES BREAST & CERVICAL CANCER

6. PramTrac • Enter alternative addresses for mothers from Cornerstone • Time between addresses is a year or less • Phone numbers • Apartment numbers

7. Process for Undelivered Mail & Trouble Phone Sheets • PramTrac Process: Identify mother’s age Identify mother’s marital status Identify mother’s maiden name Identify father’s information Identify mother’s race Identify low birthweight and normal birthweight

9. Fax Form

10. 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

11. 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.anywho.com

12. 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.infospace.com

13. Search: Name, City, and State Advantage: Complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person http://www.switchboard.com

14. Search: Name, City, or State Advantage: Provides complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person http://www.bigfoot.com

15. 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://www.people.yahoo.com

16. Search: Name, Street, City, State, Zip Advantages:Provides complete address and phone number. Provides good results Disadvantage: Provides too much information http://webcrawler.com/reference/people_finder

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19. 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

20. Phone Phase/Cornerstone • Phone numbers • Additional addresses • Other contacts

21. Thank You • Incentive: -Certificate of appreciation -Tote Bag -Picture Frame

23. Adding Pencils to the Questionnaires

24. Pencil Experiment • Control Group: Books sent with pencils • Experimental Group: Books sent without pencils • Results: Similar results for both groups

26. ILLINOIS PRAMS STAFF