Westat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation joined forces to survey one of America’s critical work forces: home health aides. The National Home Health Aide Survey measures the growing number of citizens who benefit from health care provided in the home.
A total of 1,500 home health and hospice agencies participating in the National Home and Hospice Care Survey. Six home health aides from each agency were randomly selected, for a total of 6,000 health aides throughout the country, to be part of the National Home Health Aide Survey.
The purpose of the presentation is to promote participation by relaying the importance of the survey and how it provides a better understanding of the following:
The health aides are assured of privacy and that the combined results will be released in summary form in tables and reports that do not display any personal information that identifies the participants or the agencies. The participants have the option to receive copies of the results. Also an enclosed $5 incentive was included in a companion survey packet, and an additional $30 was offered for completion of a corresponding telephone interview.
In order to offer convenience to the participants, the presentation was distributed as a video DVD that could be viewed on a television or computer DVD player. It was also offered on the CDC National Center for Health Statistics web site as a Flash presentation: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhhcs.htm# For the web solution, each scene was produced to be preloaded separately in order not to bog down the participant’s computers while viewing the presentation.