1. TM Introduction of CDC's Web-Based Tobacco Survey Database The Question Inventory on Tobacco (QIT) Angela Trosclair, MS Linda Pederson, PhD Pascale Wortley, MD, MPH Michael Schooley, MPH

2. TM What is QIT? QIT includes data from 13 different health surveys (most from 1990 or later) QIT includes data from both national and state surveys QIT includes data collected from both youth and adults

3. TM How can QIT be used? QIT can be used to locate survey questions and their response formats QIT can be used to locate data and documentation for secondary data analyses QIT can be used to gather ideas for future survey development

4. TM Demonstration Objectives 1)A simple search by category and keyword 2)A guided search through –A selection of category and keywords —A selection of scope and population —A selection of survey and selected year 3)A review of QIT’s key features

5. TM A Simple Search by Category and Keyword

6. TM Search of Category, Media/Advertising, and Keyword, Actors

7. TM Results

8. TM Question Details for 1st Result

9. TM Survey Details for 1st Result

10. TM A More Complex Search Based on Category and Keywords, Scope, Population, and Survey

11. TM Search on Policy/ETS for indoors and work.

12. TM The Search Returns 38 Results

13. TM Too many results. Let's narrow the search by selecting a population and scope.

14. TM Back to the Category/Keyword page to Add More Criteria

15. TM Now we can Select a Scope and Population

16. TM Let’s choose to look at All Surveys

17. TM Now these are the Options available for Population

18. TM Now let’s look at only state surveys.

19. TM This will change the options available for Population

20. TM Let's choose to look at state surveys of adults only

21. TM Now there are only 9 Results…Let’s further refine the search.

22. TM Again, we’ll Add More Criteria.

23. TM QIT Warning Message for a Guided Search

24. TM Now we can narrow the search by Survey and/or Year.

25. TM Let's choose to look at BRFSS questions only

26. TM 3 results are returned. Let’s look at details for the 2 nd question.

27. TM Let’s look at Survey Details for BRFSS.

28. TM Clicking on the Survey Sponsor link takes us to the home page of the organization that sponsors the survey

29. TM Clicking on the Data for Public Use link will bring us to the specific site where public use data and documentation can be found or on-line data are available for preset analyses

30. TM Key Features of QIT

31. TM A practical way to familiarize yourself with our category and keyword scheme is to use the Category/Keyword Index

32. TM The Survey Directory

33. TM Related Links

34. TM Additional data resources can be found in the OSH publication... http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/surveillance_manual/Surveillance.pdf

35. TM QIT Help includes Search Tips Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Browser Requirements

36. TM What the QIT database cannot do.... QIT cannot be used as a survey creation tool, although questions from QIT can be used to gather ideas for future questionnaire development Provide you with sources for public use data for every survey and year for which questions are available, particularly state surveys and questions from older surveys Provide the logic, thought, and effort that are needed to create an effective written, CATI, or CAPI survey instrument complete with skip patterns, for example.

37. TM Example of a QIT Error Message

38. TM The other QIT Error Message

39. TM Northrup Grumman Missions Systems Hu Yang, MBA of Hi-Hu, Inc. Technical Lead and Senior Developer John Walsh System Designer and Developer Allison MacNeil, MPH Systems Analyst and Data Manager Prabhu Krishnadas, MS Usability Specialist Jeffrey Chrismon, PMP Project Manager Dalyrema Johnson, BS Health Care Analyst Acknowledgements

40. TM Angela Trosclair, MS ATrosclair@cdc.gov The Question Inventory on Tobacco http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/qit