Sandra H Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 4233079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra H Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra H |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hard-to-Survey Populations
Surveys are used extensively in psychology, sociology and business, as well as many other areas, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to conduct. Some segments of the population are hard to sample, some are hard to find, others are hard to persuade to participate in surveys, and still others are hard to interview. This book offers the first systematic look at the populations and settings that make surveys hard to conduct and at the method…
California’s Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act
In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reduci…
Health-related quality of life in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and frequently associated comorbidities
Validation of a quality-of-life scale for women with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis
It's Better on TV: Does Television Set Teenagers Up for Regret Following Sexual Initiation
CONTEXT: Two‐thirds of sexually experienced teenagers in the United States say they wish they had waited longer to have intercourse for the first time. Little is known about why such a large proportion of teenagers express disappointment about the timing of their initial experience with sex. METHODS: Data on television viewing, on regret about the timing of first intercourse and on potentially relevant covariates were obtained from a national, th…
Simultaneous Recruitment of Drug Users and Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States and Russia Using Respondent-Driven Sampling: Sampling Methods and Implications
The Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP) examined the role of drug use in the sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from traditional high-risk groups, such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and drug users (DU), to lower risk groups in three US cities and in St. Petersburg, Russia. SATHCAP employed respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and a dual high-risk group sampling approach th…
Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior
This study used multiple-group structural equation modeling to test a model explaining the association between exposure to televised sexual content and initiation of intercourse among an ethnically diverse national sample of 1,292 adolescents. The authors hypothesized, on the basis of social-cognitive theory, that exposure to televised sexual content would influence adolescents' safe-sex self-efficacy, sex-related outcome expectancies, and percei…
Watching Sex on Television Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior
Background. Early sexual initiation is an important social and health issue. A recent survey suggested that most sexually experienced teens wish they had waited longer to have intercourse; other data indicate that unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are more common among those who begin sexual activity earlier. The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested that portrayals of sex on entertainment television (TV) may contribu…
A Comparison Between Responses From a Propensity-Weighted Web Survey and an Identical RDD Survey
The authors conducted a large-scale survey about health care twice, once as a web and once as a random digit dialing (RDD) phone survey. The web survey used a statistical technique, propensity scoring, to adjust for selection bias. Comparing the weighted responses from both surveys, there were no significant response differences in 8 of 37 questions. Web survey responses were significantly more likely to agree with RDD responses when the question…
Annual Membership Meeting
President Betsy Martin called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. There were approximately 117 attendees. Betsy Martin welcomed the group and introduced the Executive Council members for 2003–4: President’s report. Betsy Martin reported that during the past year there were several partnership initiatives put forth. AAPOR joined with the Council of American Survey Research Organization (CASRO), Council for Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR), and …
A National Survey of Stress Reactions after the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
BACKGROUND: People who are not present at a traumatic event may also experience stress reactions. We assessed the immediate mental health effects of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. METHODS: Using random-digit dialing three to five days after September 11, we interviewed a nationally representative sample of 569 U.S. adults about their reactions to the terrorist attacks and their perceptions of their children's reactions. RESULTS: For…
Expectations Regarding Aging Among Older Adults and Physicians Who Care for Older Adults
BACKGROUND: Understanding older adults' expectations regarding aging is important for both clinicians and policy-makers. OBJECTIVES: 1) To identify the content for a survey to measure expectations regarding aging; 2) to qualitatively compare older adults' and physicians' expectations regarding aging. SETTING: Three senior centers and one university-based internal medicine faculty practice. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-nine adults (mean age 78 years); 11 p…
Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study
Drawing a probability sample of female street prostitutes in Los Angeles county
Methods used to construct a spatial‐temporal sampling frame to recruit a probability sample of female street prostitutes in the 4,000 square mile area of Los Angeles County are described. Of 164 potential street areas named by informants or associated with marker establishments, 111 were judged to have sufficient prostitution activity for inclusion in the study. Completed interviews were obtained from 998 prostitutes, 638 of whom also gave blood …
The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: In order to elucidate the medical care of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States, we randomly sampled HIV-infected adults receiving medical care in the contiguous United States at a facility other than military, prison, or emergency department facility during the first two months of 1996. We interviewed 76 percent of 4042 patients selected from among the patients receiving care from…
A Perceived Health Index for Use in Persons With Advanced HIV Disease: Derivation, Reliability, and Validity
Acceptance of health status as an outcome in clinical trials of new treatments for HIV disease has been hampered by the lack of valid and clinically relevant means of summarizing differences across multiple dimensions. We formed a summary Perceived Health Index from health status measures adapted from RAND Medical Outcomes Study scale and contained in the HIV-PARSE survey instrument, which had been administered to a large number of participants i…
Los Angeles Today and Tomorrow: Results of the Los Angeles 2000 Community Survey
This report describes a survey undertaken to determine how the people of Los Angeles feel about the quality of their lives, what they see as the region's most serious problems, how they rate the way the problems are being handled, and what they think can and should be done.
Physician Response to a Mailed Survey an Experiment in Timing of Payment
Journal Article PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO A MAILED SURVEY AN EXPERIMENT IN TIMING OF PAYMENT Get access SANDRA H. BERRY, SANDRA H. BERRY Director of the Survey Research Group Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID E. KANOUSE DAVID E. KANOUSE Senior Behavioral Scientist at the Rand Corporation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, S…
A Comparison Between Responses From a Propensity-Weighted Web Survey and an Identical RDD Survey
The authors conducted a large-scale survey about health care twice, once as a web and once as a random digit dialing (RDD) phone survey. The web survey used a statistical technique, propensity scoring, to adjust for selection bias. Comparing the weighted responses from both surveys, there were no significant response differences in 8 of 37 questions. Web survey responses were significantly more likely to agree with RDD responses when the question…
Simultaneous Recruitment of Drug Users and Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States and Russia Using Respondent-Driven Sampling: Sampling Methods and Implications
The Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP) examined the role of drug use in the sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from traditional high-risk groups, such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and drug users (DU), to lower risk groups in three US cities and in St. Petersburg, Russia. SATHCAP employed respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and a dual high-risk group sampling approach th…
Physician Response to a Mailed Survey an Experiment in Timing of Payment
Journal Article PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO A MAILED SURVEY AN EXPERIMENT IN TIMING OF PAYMENT Get access SANDRA H. BERRY, SANDRA H. BERRY Director of the Survey Research Group Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID E. KANOUSE DAVID E. KANOUSE Senior Behavioral Scientist at the Rand Corporation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, S…
Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior
This study used multiple-group structural equation modeling to test a model explaining the association between exposure to televised sexual content and initiation of intercourse among an ethnically diverse national sample of 1,292 adolescents. The authors hypothesized, on the basis of social-cognitive theory, that exposure to televised sexual content would influence adolescents' safe-sex self-efficacy, sex-related outcome expectancies, and percei…
California’s Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act
In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reduci…
Drawing a probability sample of female street prostitutes in Los Angeles county
Methods used to construct a spatial‐temporal sampling frame to recruit a probability sample of female street prostitutes in the 4,000 square mile area of Los Angeles County are described. Of 164 potential street areas named by informants or associated with marker establishments, 111 were judged to have sufficient prostitution activity for inclusion in the study. Completed interviews were obtained from 998 prostitutes, 638 of whom also gave blood …
Physician Response to a Mailed Survey an Experiment in Timing of Payment
Journal Article PHYSICIAN RESPONSE TO A MAILED SURVEY AN EXPERIMENT IN TIMING OF PAYMENT Get access SANDRA H. BERRY, SANDRA H. BERRY Director of the Survey Research Group Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID E. KANOUSE DAVID E. KANOUSE Senior Behavioral Scientist at the Rand Corporation Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, S…
Los Angeles Today and Tomorrow: Results of the Los Angeles 2000 Community Survey
This report describes a survey undertaken to determine how the people of Los Angeles feel about the quality of their lives, what they see as the region's most serious problems, how they rate the way the problems are being handled, and what they think can and should be done.
A Perceived Health Index for Use in Persons With Advanced HIV Disease: Derivation, Reliability, and Validity
Acceptance of health status as an outcome in clinical trials of new treatments for HIV disease has been hampered by the lack of valid and clinically relevant means of summarizing differences across multiple dimensions. We formed a summary Perceived Health Index from health status measures adapted from RAND Medical Outcomes Study scale and contained in the HIV-PARSE survey instrument, which had been administered to a large number of participants i…
The Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: In order to elucidate the medical care of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States, we randomly sampled HIV-infected adults receiving medical care in the contiguous United States at a facility other than military, prison, or emergency department facility during the first two months of 1996. We interviewed 76 percent of 4042 patients selected from among the patients receiving care from…
Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study
Drawing a probability sample of female street prostitutes in Los Angeles county
Methods used to construct a spatial‐temporal sampling frame to recruit a probability sample of female street prostitutes in the 4,000 square mile area of Los Angeles County are described. Of 164 potential street areas named by informants or associated with marker establishments, 111 were judged to have sufficient prostitution activity for inclusion in the study. Completed interviews were obtained from 998 prostitutes, 638 of whom also gave blood …
A National Survey of Stress Reactions after the September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks
BACKGROUND: People who are not present at a traumatic event may also experience stress reactions. We assessed the immediate mental health effects of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. METHODS: Using random-digit dialing three to five days after September 11, we interviewed a nationally representative sample of 569 U.S. adults about their reactions to the terrorist attacks and their perceptions of their children's reactions. RESULTS: For…
Expectations Regarding Aging Among Older Adults and Physicians Who Care for Older Adults
BACKGROUND: Understanding older adults' expectations regarding aging is important for both clinicians and policy-makers. OBJECTIVES: 1) To identify the content for a survey to measure expectations regarding aging; 2) to qualitatively compare older adults' and physicians' expectations regarding aging. SETTING: Three senior centers and one university-based internal medicine faculty practice. PARTICIPANTS: Forty-nine adults (mean age 78 years); 11 p…
Watching Sex on Television Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior
Background. Early sexual initiation is an important social and health issue. A recent survey suggested that most sexually experienced teens wish they had waited longer to have intercourse; other data indicate that unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are more common among those who begin sexual activity earlier. The American Academy of Pediatrics has suggested that portrayals of sex on entertainment television (TV) may contribu…
A Comparison Between Responses From a Propensity-Weighted Web Survey and an Identical RDD Survey
The authors conducted a large-scale survey about health care twice, once as a web and once as a random digit dialing (RDD) phone survey. The web survey used a statistical technique, propensity scoring, to adjust for selection bias. Comparing the weighted responses from both surveys, there were no significant response differences in 8 of 37 questions. Web survey responses were significantly more likely to agree with RDD responses when the question…
Annual Membership Meeting
President Betsy Martin called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. There were approximately 117 attendees. Betsy Martin welcomed the group and introduced the Executive Council members for 2003–4: President’s report. Betsy Martin reported that during the past year there were several partnership initiatives put forth. AAPOR joined with the Council of American Survey Research Organization (CASRO), Council for Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR), and …
Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior
This study used multiple-group structural equation modeling to test a model explaining the association between exposure to televised sexual content and initiation of intercourse among an ethnically diverse national sample of 1,292 adolescents. The authors hypothesized, on the basis of social-cognitive theory, that exposure to televised sexual content would influence adolescents' safe-sex self-efficacy, sex-related outcome expectancies, and percei…
It's Better on TV: Does Television Set Teenagers Up for Regret Following Sexual Initiation
CONTEXT: Two‐thirds of sexually experienced teenagers in the United States say they wish they had waited longer to have intercourse for the first time. Little is known about why such a large proportion of teenagers express disappointment about the timing of their initial experience with sex. METHODS: Data on television viewing, on regret about the timing of first intercourse and on potentially relevant covariates were obtained from a national, th…
Simultaneous Recruitment of Drug Users and Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States and Russia Using Respondent-Driven Sampling: Sampling Methods and Implications
The Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP) examined the role of drug use in the sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from traditional high-risk groups, such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and drug users (DU), to lower risk groups in three US cities and in St. Petersburg, Russia. SATHCAP employed respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and a dual high-risk group sampling approach th…
Validation of a quality-of-life scale for women with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis
Health-related quality of life in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and frequently associated comorbidities
California’s Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act
In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reduci…
Hard-to-Survey Populations
Surveys are used extensively in psychology, sociology and business, as well as many other areas, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to conduct. Some segments of the population are hard to sample, some are hard to find, others are hard to persuade to participate in surveys, and still others are hard to interview. This book offers the first systematic look at the populations and settings that make surveys hard to conduct and at the method…
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Demography (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (4 works)