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Recruit Assessment Program (RAP) Evaluation at Recruit Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois

Recruit Assessment Program (RAP) Evaluation at Recruit Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois Armed Forces Epidemiology Board LT Gerald H. Kaforski, MSC, USN Naval Hospital Great Lakes Recruit Assessment Program History of Systems at Great Lakes:

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Recruit Assessment Program (RAP) Evaluation at Recruit Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois

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  1. Recruit Assessment Program (RAP) Evaluation atRecruit Training Center Great Lakes, Illinois Armed Forces Epidemiology Board LT Gerald H. Kaforski, MSC, USN Naval Hospital Great Lakes

  2. Recruit Assessment Program History of Systems at Great Lakes: • Recruit health questionnaire (SHIP) since 1995 • Most comprehensive medical in-processing in DoD

  3. Recruit Assessment Program History of Systems at Great Lakes: • SHIP-Sailors Health Inventory Program • 193 questions • Responses used for input to other systems • Medical condition and allergy screening • Data sent to Naval Health Research Center • “Bubble Sheet” paper based • RAP questions initially based on SHIP

  4. Recruit Assessment Program RAP Technical Evaluation in 2001 Included: • Hardware • Software • Database Connectivity • Integration Issues • Operational Issues

  5. Recruit Assessment Program Hardware • Basically off the shelf desktop computers • High speed Kodak and Fujitsu scanners • High speed SCSI connectors

  6. Recruit Assessment Program Software: • Cardiff Teleform Elite Version 7 • Design • Recognition • Verification • Windows NT Operating System • Access • SQL Server

  7. Recruit Assessment Program Database Connectivity • Tested with Access and SQL Server • Overall good connectivity

  8. Recruit Assessment Program Integration Issues • Software and Hardware tested compatible with common systems • Database connectivity allows integration of data in many formats

  9. Recruit Assessment Program Operational Issues • Similar to SHIP process • Slower than SHIP • Up to 6 hours to process 2 divisions of 100 • SHIP takes 3 to 4 hours processing • Data quality in return • Requires fairly extensive training

  10. Recruit Assessment Program Analysis • Technology viable • Not suited to long questionnaires • No ROI for Great Lakes process

  11. Recruit Assessment Program RAP Questionnaire • Since similar to SHIP, easily adopted • Great Lakes is eager to share common baseline across DoD

  12. Recruit Assessment Program Critical Issues • Time away from training • Flexibility to allow collection of local or service specific information • Integration and avoidance of “stovepipe” • Use of best technology

  13. Recruit Assessment Program Great Lakes Palm Initiative • Currently testing use of Palm Pilot for Questionnaire Administration • Processing time reduced to minutes versus hours • Great promise-expect local implementation

  14. Recruit Assessment Program Conclusions • Questionnaire content acceptable • Continued use of paper scanning not an acceptable technology for Great Lakes • An isolated application would adversely affect acceptability • Recommend that RAP be a set of data requirements to report, but decision on how to implement be left up to individual sites

  15. Recruit Assessment Program Questions? LT Gerald Kaforski Naval Hospital Great Lakes grl1ghk@grl10.med.navy.mil 847-688-6929

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