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Temple University Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Quality of Life Survey
(Co-Funded DOH and Temple University)

Principal:
Alice Hausman
Public Health

Participants:
Brenda Seals
Youngkyun Park

As part of Temple’s annual Quality of Life Survey, CPREP posed questions to assess baseline conditions of Pennsylvanians’ preparedness, including concerns about natural disasters and terrorism, current preparedness practices, awareness of state resources, preferred communication formats. Additional measures of mental distress will be correlated with key concerns and behaviors; community resiliency will be studied using variables from the core survey. Sample size is 1500 plus an additional 200 to over-sample the rural areas of Pennsylvania. Data will support a variety of proposals for risk communication research, social marketing for preparedness, and mental health service delivery.

Funding Source:
PA Department of Health, April 2004-August 2005

Findings:

Summary of Survey Preliminary Findings

Recent Accomplishments:

• Three questions were added to Philadelphia Citizens for longitudinal follow-up.
  1. In collaboration with IPA a second survey was redone.
  2. The results of the surveys were presented to the EPRC committee.