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Longitudinal Aging Study in India - Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD) Genomics Study: Monitoring the Health and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 : RTI COVID-India
Source: University of Southern California (USC)Date Published: 4/29/2020Format: PDFAnnotation: LASI-DAD is the first and only nationally representative and publicly available dataset on late-life cognition and dementia in India. We have drawn a sample of over 4,000 community-residing older adults 60+ years of age from 19 states in India, representing 91.6% of India's ethnically diverse population. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household.
Study Parameters: The survey will draw on the 4,096 LASI-DAD households. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household. The survey will take 15 minutes and will be administered via phone calls according to the following schedule: a first round, soon to be conducted in May 2020 and every two months thereafter for one year. We will randomly space interview slots over each two-month-long survey wave to facilitate time series analysis of responses to changes in the health and policy environment.
As we plan to re-interview the same respondents over a one-year time period, we will monitor the course of the pandemic carefully and adapt the instrument, as needed, to ensure that it is filling high-priority knowledge gaps. At the same time, we aim to make changes judiciously to ensure that we have a high-quality time-series of central variables.
India is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country. To ensure national representation and high-quality data collection, the instrument and consent are translated into 12 languages: Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Odiya, Marathi, and Telugu. All interviews will be conducted in respondents' local languages to ensure respondent comprehension and comfort.
Preliminary Testing: We conducted a pilot to verify phone contact rates for the LASI-DAD sample in March 2020. The aim of this pilot is to examine the feasibility of Computer Assisted Telephone Interview for the sample. A first wave of 1,587 households had phone numbers collected between October 2017 and May 2018; we called 51 of these households and were able to get in touch with 25 (49%); the remaining 2,503 households had numbers collected during October 2018 or later. We called 49 of these households and got in touch with 40 (82%). This pilot was conducted over a few days and did not use back-up phone numbers on file with households; these contact rates are therefore lower bounds and suggest that getting in touch with 75-80% of the full sample is feasible.
We then pretested the instrument in April 2020. The aim of the pretest is to assess the time required for the instrument administration, as well as to evaluate how respondents respond to the question contents. We conducted the pretest in six local languages with a sample size of 29 households, 58 interviews. After the pretest and debriefing, we refined the instrument for the survey rollout.
Population: Adults only
Length: 34 items
Time to Complete: 15 minutes
Administered by: Trained Lay Examiner/Interviewer
Language(s): English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Odiya, Marathi, and Telugu
This instrument has been developed in two stages; it was first pushed out the baseline interview in May 2020 during the lockdown period, and then further refined with additional content: https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/content/files/RTI_India_instrument.docx
RTI India Interviewer Manual https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/content/files/RTI_India_round6manual_final.docx
Longitudinal Aging Study in India – Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD): Full Full Questionnaire https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD.pdf
COVID19-related knowledge and behaviors: Social Distancing; Hygiene; Knowledge https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD_Knowledge.pdf
COVID19 and Health care and food security: Health Care; Symptoms; Food Security https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD_Health.pdf
COVID19 and Economic Effects: Economic Impact https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD_Economic.pdf
COVID19 and Discrimination and (mis) information: Sources of information about COVID-19; Social Impact https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD_Discrimination.pdf
COVID19 and Mental Health, coping and wellbeing: Mental Health; Overall Impact https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/LASI-DAD_Mental_Health.pdf...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Available Formats: PDF
Free/Publicly Available
Contact Information: Help@lasi-dad.orgIncludes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 22098. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. -
Trauma Symptom Checklist 40 (TSC-40)
Source: University of Southern California (USC)Date Published: 1996Format: TextAnnotation: The Trauma Symptom Checklist 40 (TSC-40) is a measure of symptomatic distress in adults arising from childhood or adult traumatic experiences. It measures aspects of post-traumatic stress as well as other symptoms found in some traumatized individuals. Respondents are asked to rate how often they have experienced each symptom in the last two months using a four-point frequency rating scale. In addition to yielding a total score (ranging from 0 to 120), the TSC-40 has six subscales: Anxiety, Depression, Dissociation, Sexual Abuse Trauma Index, Sexual Problems, and Sleep Disturbances. According to the authors, this measure is intended exclusively for research purposes. The instrument is further described here. This resource was identified by the NIH Disaster Research Response Program (DR2) for researchers looking for pre- and post-disaster data collection instruments.
Ease of Use in Disaster Setting: Easy
Population: Adults only
Length: 40 questions
Administered by: Self Administered/Self Report
Language(s): English...[See more] [See less]Type: Guideline/Assessment ToolAccess Notes: Free/Publicly Available
Citation(s):
Ask E, Gudmundsdottir D. A longitudinal study of post-traumatic stress symptoms and their predictors in rescue workers after a firework factory disaster. Int J Emerg Ment Health. 2014;16(2):316-21. Epub 2015 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 25585484. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25585484. Subscription required.
Elliot DM, Briere J. Sexual abuse trauma among professional women: validating the Trauma Symptom Checklist-40 (TSC-40). Child Abuse Negl. 1992;16(3):391-8. PubMed PMID: 1617473. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1617473. Subscription required.
You DS, Creech SK, Vichaya EG, Young EE, Smith JS, Meagher MW. Effect of written emotional disclosure on secondary hyperalgesia in women with trauma history. Psychosom Med. 2014 Jun;76(5):337-46. doi: 10.1097/psy.0000000000000064. Epub 2014 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 24911979. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24911979. Subscription required.
Contact information:
Contact person: John Briere, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology
Institution: University of Southern California School of Medicine
Address: Clinical Sciences Center, 2250 Alcazar, Suite 2200, Los Angeles, CA 90089Includes Research Tools: Yes.ID: 12923. From: Disaster Lit®a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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