Revisions to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Sleep Questions

The behavioral risk factor surveillance system.

The Hawaii Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

2 Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge the adult residents of Hawaii who voluntarily participated in the HBRFSS. Without their participation this report as well as other studies derived from HBRFSS would not have been made possible. We would also like to thank staff at the Department of Health especially Dr. Alvin T. Onaka, Chief of Office of Health Status Monitoring (OHSM) and OHSM sta...

A Methodological Approach to Small Area Estimation for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Public health researchers have used a class of statistical methods to calculate prevalence estimates for small geographic areas with few direct observations. Many researchers have used Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data as a basis for their models. The aims of this study were to 1) describe a new BRFSS small area estimation (SAE) method and 2) investigate the internal and e...

Age and sleep disturbances among American men and women: data from the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Explore the prevalence of sleep-related complaints across age groups, examining effects of sex, general health, and depressed mood. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data from the 2006 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). SETTING Epidemiologic. PARTICIPANTS Complete-case analysis included 155,877 participants who responded to questions related to Self-Repor...

Lower-extremity amputation risk is associated with variation in behavioral risk factor surveillance system responses.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether regional variation in the rate of lower-extremity amputation (LEA) is associated with health behaviors. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional prevalence study of merged data from the U.S. Census, Medicare parts A and B, and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We used regression models to determine whether previously described regiona...