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PubMed2003

Nifty after fifty: evaluation of a physical activity directory for older people.

OBJECTIVE: To develop a physical activity directory (PAD) for Brisbane people over the age of 50 years for distribution by two methods (given or requested), and to determine its effectiveness in raising awareness and encouraging older people to participate in local physical activity options. METHODS: Baseline demographic data and stage of change was collected from 224 participants who received the directory. Participants were interviewed by telephone six weeks later to determine their use of the directory on a number of dimensions. RESULTS: Most participants interviewed at follow-up remembered reading the directory. Participants who requested the directory were significantly more likely than those who were given it to: be contemplators, read the directory, plan to ring a number, plan to attend a class, and to share the directory with others. Participants who were contemplators were significantly more likely to have participated in physical activity of their own and rang a number from the directory. The directory increased over half the participants' awareness of local physical activity options, yet only 7% reported ringing a number and 15% reported doing their own physical activity. CONCLUSIONS: The directory was more effective in raising awareness about physical activity options than encouraging people to participate in physical activity, and participants with short-term plans to be more active were more likely to have used the directory. IMPLICATIONS: The directory, even when linked with other services, raises awareness about physical activity options, but has minimal short-term influence on participation.

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Development and evaluation of a community cancer resource directory.

The Frederick Cancer-Related Resource Directory was developed in response to the community's need to be informed about available services for cancer patients. A 1-year followup and evaluation was conducted to determine what changes or corrections were needed in the text of the directory and if the objectives of the project had been met. The evaluation survey of the listed resources revealed that a large number of changes in the directory were required. Seventy-eight percent of the respondents replied that at least one change was required in their entry. The followup also revealed that 16 percent of the listed resources knew of at least one referral that they received as a result of the directory listing. The survey of directory recipients indicated that 27 percent of the private practice physicians and 61 percent of the other health-related service providers who have a directory have used it or read through it. Approximately 64 percent of the users have provided clients or patients with information from the directory. Almost half of all respondents replied that, as a result of the directory listing, they had developed closer working relationships with at least one other cancer-related service organization, although the percentage was considerably higher for health-related service providers (51.2 percent) than for private physicians (27.3 percent). More than half of the respondents (58 percent) believed that a simpler directory should be made available to patients instead of or in addition to the providers' directory. Members of the project's multi agency committee became much more aware of the wide variety of cancer patients' needs and available resources. The most beneficial aspect of the project for them was the opportunity to work with persons from other agencies and to develop closer, long-term relationships.

Cancer Care Facilities↗
PubMed1986

Usefulness of a statewide referral directory of dentists found willing to treat disabled persons.

Referral directories of dentists willing to treat disabled individuals have been used as an expeditious means of improving access to care for this group. The purpose of this survey was to assess the usefulness of one such statewide referral directory. Agencies, individual field workers, and organizations to which the directory had been sent 18 months earlier were surveyed to determine the usefulness of the directory. Of the 77 groups and individuals surveyed, 46 (59.7 percent) reported that they had received the directory. The directory was considered "useful" or "very useful" by 58.7 percent of the acknowledged recipients. An additional 19.6 percent considered it to be "marginally useful." The directory was estimated to be used at least once per month by 59.1 percent of the recipients. Referral directories address only one aspect of access to dental care for disabled individuals; the effectiveness of such directories depends on their appropriate use by referring agencies.

Dental Care for Persons with Disabilities↗
PubMed2005

Evaluating the utility and accuracy of a reverse telephone directory to identify the location of survey respondents.

PURPOSE: To investigate the utility and positional accuracy of a reverse telephone directory to enhance geocoding using self-reported street addresses. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used 2001 self-reported survey data from 2636 participants in three Missouri areas. When available, street addresses were appended to participant telephone numbers using a reverse telephone directory. The odds of finding a telephone number in the reverse directory and the positional accuracy between self-reported addresses and those obtained from the reverse directory were calculated. We also determined the quality of self-reported address information and that obtained by means of the reverse telephone directory. RESULTS: Rural respondents, younger respondents, women, African Americans, and respondents with less than a high school education were less likely to have their telephone number present in the reverse directory. Using the reverse directory increased the overall percentage of respondents whose addresses were geocoded from 51.5% to 72.0%. Eighty-one percent of addresses were geocoded to the same US Census Block Group and 89% were geocoded to the same Census Tract as the self-reported addresses. CONCLUSIONS: The street address of survey participants obtained through the reverse directory can be used to augment the unknown location of telephone survey respondents but specific groups of people are less likely to be found in the directory.

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PubMed1987

A case-control study of bladder cancer using city directories as a source of occupational data.

Commercial city directories, currently produced in 1,250 United States cities, potentially provide yearly information on occupation and employer for all city residents over age 18 years. To investigate the usefulness of these occupational data, the authors have conducted a case-control study of male bladder cancer mortality in Hamilton County, Ohio (which includes Cincinnati). A total of 731 bladder cancer cases who died during 1960-1982 were matched on age, sex, race, date-of-death, and residence at death to two controls per case. Risks of bladder cancer death were calculated by occupation, industry, and specific employer, using both city directories (multiple statements) and death certificates (single statement). Four companies showed a significant excess bladder cancer risk when using city directories. Only one would have been identified using death certificates, which ask for usual lifetime type of industry rather than a specific company name. Using city directories, significant positive associations were found between bladder cancer and occupation as an engineer, tailor, carpenter, furnace operator, blending machine operator, chemist, pressing machine operator, house cleaner, or salesman. For industry, the authors found significant positive associations for the textile, chemical, grain mill, foundry, petroleum, building service, entertainment, and advertising industries. A significant increase in risk for those with 20 or more years of employment was seen for those employed as truck drivers and furnace operators, or those employed in the railroad industry. A check of the validity of city directory data indicated that 77 per cent of the listings agreed with Social Security earnings reports for employer in any given year. One limitation of Hamilton County city directory data was the fairly large number of yearly listings without any occupational data (15 per cent for occupation, 36 per cent for employer). While city directory data do provide work history over time, unlike death certificates, such data are available only for years of residence in the city in question.

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PubMed1997

Selection bias from sampling frames: telephone directory and electoral roll compared with door-to-door population census: results from the Blue Mountains Eye Study.

Many Australian public health research studies use the telephone directory or the electoral roll as a sampling frame from which to draw study subjects. The sociodemographic, disease-state and risk-factor characteristics of subjects who could be recruited using only the telephone directory or only the electoral roll sampling frames were compared with the characteristics of subjects who would have been missed using only these sampling frames, respectively. In the first phase of the Blue Mountains Eye Study we interviewed and examined 2557 people aged 49 and over living in a defined postcode area, recruited from a door-to-door census. This represented a participation rate of 80.9 per cent and a response rate of 87.9 per cent. The telephone directory was searched for each subject's telephone number and the electoral roll was searched for each subject. Subject characteristics for those who were present in each of these sampling frames were compared with the characteristics of those subjects not included in the sampling frames. The telephone directory listed 2102 (82.2 per cent) of the subjects, and 115 (4.5 per cent) had no telephone connected. The electoral roll contained 2156 (84.3 per cent) of the subjects, and 141 subjects (5.5 per cent) could not be found in either the electoral roll or the telephone directory. Younger subjects, subjects who did not own their own homes and subjects born outside of Australia were significantly less likely to be included in either of these sampling frames. The telephone directory was also more likely to exclude subjects with higher occupational prestige, while the electoral roll was more likely to exclude unmarried persons and males. Researchers using the telephone directory and electoral roll to select subjects for study should be aware of the potential selection bias these sampling frames incur and need to take care when generalising their findings to the wider community.

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PubMed1993

Use of city directories as a source of occupational data in a case-control study.

The association between occupational factors and male breast cancer was investigated in a population-based case-control study conducted in Western New York state. Since 9% of cases and controls were missing occupational information in the tumor registry (usual occupation) and screening clinic (type of work done) files, supplemental occupational data were collected from commercial city directories. Occupational data were located for 69% of participants via the city directory thereby reducing the missing occupational data to 3%. For individuals with occupational listings in both the original source document and the city directories, similar titles were found for 94% of cases. Factors to be considered in assessing the feasibility of directory usage include purpose of study, degree of directory coverage within the geographic area, gender of participants, and availability of personnel and resources. City directories are a valuable supplemental source of occupational data for hypothesis generating case-control studies or registry-based studies of men conducted in urban areas.

Breast Neoplasms↗
PubMed1993

More agencies want to help. Directory of funders.

If you want to know who might be willing to fund your safe motherhood project, write to WHO's Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood Program for our new directory. Produced in collaboration with the UK-based development agency, AHRTAG, the Directory of funders of maternal health and safe motherhood projects has more than 70 entries, including the World Bank and many UNICEF national offices. UNDP and UNFPA wrote to us indicating that they can only respond to government requests for assistance. The directory is intended for the use of non-governmental organizations planning to extend or start safe motherhood activities. WHO regularly receives requests for support which it is unable to assist because it is not a funding agency. It was in response to this evident need that the directory was prepared. Each entry in the directory contains the name, address, telephone and fax details of the funder. One agency has indicated that it may fund a project valued at as much as US$2 million while another would consider grants for as little as US$1000. Where available, details of the types of projects considered are also included. The most popular areas of support are health education, training and community-level maternity services. Some agencies have said that they are interested in supporting national safe motherhood newsletters. If you would like to receive a free copy of the directory, or if your agency would like to be included in the next edition, please write to the Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood Program, Division of Family Health, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Good luck in finding funding for your project]

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PubMed2003

Using publicly available directories to trace survey nonresponders and calculate adjusted response rates.

In population-based surveys, sample lists are often out of date by the time data collection begins. Consequently, response rates, and the perceived validity of the survey, may be compromised by the unknowing inclusion of ineligible subjects. A strategy to address this issue is ascertainment of survey nonrespondents' eligibility status, enabling post hoc adjustment of response rates. In 1995-1996, population surveys were carried out in two Ontario, Canada, communities. Despite intensive follow-up, the status of 8949 (18.6%) of the 48218 potential subjects in these surveys remained unknown. In response, 500 "unknowns" from each community were randomly selected for tracing by using publicly available telephone directories and, where applicable, city directories. These tracing efforts classified persons into one of three groups: "ineligible" (moved before the mailing), "true nonresponder" (present when the survey was mailed), and "remains unknown" (no directory listing found). Publicly available directories clarified the status of 76.0% of potential participants, reducing the proportion of "unknowns" from 18.6% to 4.6%. Applying the estimated proportions of "ineligibles" from each area resulted in response rates adjusted from 63.8% to 71.2% and from 72.8% to 74.9% in the survey areas. Publicly available directories were used to successfully trace the majority of survey nonresponders, thus strengthening confidence in the survey's results.

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PubMed2005

The Bioinformatics Links Directory: a compilation of molecular biology web servers.

The Bioinformatics Links Directory is an online community resource that contains a directory of freely available tools, databases, and resources for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. The listing of the servers published in this and previous issues of Nucleic Acids Research together with other useful tools and websites represents a rich repository of resources that are openly provided to the research community using internet technologies. The 166 servers highlighted in the 2005 90002 are included in the more than 700 links to useful online resources that are currently contained within the descriptive biological categories of the Bioinformatics Links Directory. This curated listing of bioinformatics resources is available online at the Bioinformatics Links Directory web site, http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/links_directory/. A complete listing of the 2005 Nucleic Acids Research 90002 servers is available online at the Nucleic Acids web site, http://nar.oupjournals.org/, and on the Bioinformatics Links Directory web site, http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/resources/links_directory/narweb2005/.

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PubMed2003

Health promotion directory: development, distribution, and utilization.

In response to repeated questions from older adults in the community about health resources, a health promotion directory was created. To enhance the development and distribution of the directory, the authors reviewed the literature and received input from unpaid consultants--both health professionals and a diverse group of older adults. To assess the utilization of the directory, the authors obtained a purposive sample, comparing 43 African American older adults, with low income and educational levels, with 118 mostly Anglo American (96%) older adults with a higher educational level. The African American group members were significantly more likely to contact one of the resources listed in the health directory. This may be due to a variety of factors, including the increased contact time that the authors had spent with these older adults or the greater need that older adults with low income and education levels may have for the information in the directory.

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