Don't Be Surprised When Pollster
Comes To Your Door In Future
DURHAM — If you live
in Durham, Franklin,
Granville, Vance or
Warren counties and a
stranger with a badge
comes to your door asking
questions about your
health, don't think it's a
prank.
Forty-five interviewers
began questioning
residents in that area June
12 for a study conducted by
Duke University Medical
Center.
The questionnaires are
part of a $2 million Duke
study of physical and
mental illnesses people in
the Piedmont area get and
where they go for treat
rnent. Duke and four other
institutions are interview
ing a total of 17,500 persons
nationwide for the study,
funded hy the U. S. Public
Health Service.
"The interviewers will
question over 4,000 people
in those Piedmont coun
ties," said Dr. Dan Blazer,
one of the principle inves
tigators for Duke. Blazer,
associate professor of
psychiatry and assistant
professor of community
and family medicine, is
directing the year-long
survey. Linda George,
associate professor of
psychiatry and adjunct
associate professor of
sociology, is the "ft
principal investigator.
Blazer stressed that
answering questions is
voluntary and said all
information will be
confidential. He said the
names and addresses of
persons interviewed are
separated from the answer
forms when they are
submitted for study.
"It takes from an hour to
an hour and a half to
answer all of the
questions," Blazer said.
"Each interviewer will
have a letter for respond
ents which explains the
Piedmont Health Survey."
Blazer said the inter
viewers, who will be
wearing a green Research
Triangle Institute (RTI)
badge with a photograph
and a thumbprint, will go
to the selected households
in their sample area and
ask if any adult over 18
would like to answer the
questions. RTI is
supervising the day-to-day
activity of the survey,
Blazer said.
"The households we're
surveying were pre
selected at random,"
Blazer said. "Although
there are no direct benefits
for peop'.e who participate,
the survey will be used to
plan health care services
for Piedmont communi
ties, he said.
Some of the questions on
the survey include: Do you
often have trouble falling
asleep? What kind of medi
cations do you take? Have
you ever noticed any side
effects? (Interviewers will
have a color chart of medi
cines in case respondents
can't remember medical
names) wnat was your last
major illness? Has
someone in your family
died recently?
"I think we really know
very little about what types
of problems people suffer
because individuals often
don't seek help," Blazer
said. "We need to know
where people go to get
help, and what some of the
barriers to health care
are."
Each person interviewed
will be asked to take part in
a follow-up telephone
survey six months after the
interview, Blazer said. The
Duke researchers hope to
have all of their interviews
completed by November or
December and the results
ready for inclusion in the
nationwide survey by
December 1983.
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