Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
AZ BRFSS - The Arizona Department of Health Services, (ADHS)Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System(BRFSS) has had a collaborative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), since1984.The ADHS BRFSS is a combined landline and cell phone surveys that collects uniform data annually from randomly selected residents. Arizona's BRFSS sample design consists of 90% cell and 10% landline surveys among its highest populated regions/counties, Maricopa and Pima and 65% cell phone and 35% landline data collection among its rural areas with a minority over-sample and address matching for pre-notification letters. The survey consists of questions that ask about important emerging health issues and risk-related behavior trends, along with nation-wide efforts. With the help of CDC's guidance, Arizona's BRFSS has been recognized as the leader among the states throughout the U.S. ADHS BRFSS has been at the forefront, and is currently being recognized for the amount of data collection it has to offer. TThe ADHS BRFSS includes a core standardized questionnaire with optional modules of set questions that Arizona's BRFSS has adopted to their specific needs. The BRFSS is the only data source of population-based on health behaviors about self-reported health conditions, chronic disease prevalence, behavioral risk factors and health practices for preventing diseases, which aligns with the Healthy People 2030 determinants factors for morbidity and mortality in the United States at the local, state, and national levels. Objective: The funds requested within this application will cover the costs for salaries/wages and ERE; supplies, out-of-state travel, and the costs to administer the BRFSS survey’s data collections. The ADHS BRFSS survey under the direction of CDC policies and procedures collects data from randomly selected Arizonans, adults aged 18 and older as part of a concerted effort to help guide health care entities lower their costs. Purposes: Number: CDC-RFA-DP20-2007 is to continue the ADHS BRFSS Survey’s time frame from August 1, 2020 through July 31, 2021. ADHS’s BRFSS collects sub-state level surveillance data in order to better understand and address the health status, health risk behaviors, and health disparities within states and across the nation. The ADHS programs, county health departments, and municipalities community health assessments are reliant on the BRFSS data to provide the health care programs’ grants deliverables. Methods: Since 2014, ADHS’ goal is to collect data on the nearest intersection from the respondent’s for purposes of Geocoding, but the raw data is not released to outside or internal partners or to anyone from the public. In the interest of data security, Arizona has fully implemented the HHS “Safe Harbor” method of deidentification for all public release of BRFSS data sets. ADHS will continue with HHS policies for the coming years for Arizona’s BRFSS surveys. An important factor is that in order to weight and analyze BRFSS data at a national and state level, the CDC /BRFSS methodology requires a minimum number of units to collect, which is 500 per county. In 2021, the minimum sample size of 8,000 consists of 10 stratum in order to meet the 500 completed surveys per region's threshold. Proposed/Summary of Activities: The ADHS BRFSS 2020-2021 constructed a state-specific BRFSS questionnaire and has committed to a sample size of a minimum of 8,000 combined cell phone and landline completed interviews. Arizona is requesting funds to support the Asthma call-back survey. ADHS BRFSS administered the survey with assistance to monitor the budget through the ADHS business office, due to the complexity of CDC/BRFSS grant’s different funding components.Outcomes: A growing number of researchers uses the BRFSS data as a basis for analysis of their estimates for their health care programs. The BRFSS data has been used for the SAE method in Maricopa and Pima Counties.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).