Ventana Ginical Research Corporation Community Health Assessment Project PORT COLBORNE CHAP COMMUNITY HE, ASSESSMENT PROJECT i CHAP A Report A Self-Reported Health Assessment of the Port Colborne Community (2003) September 24, 2004 CHAP A Report: Self-Reported Health Assessment Draft 24-SEP-2004 Confidential ~ Page 1 of 212Ventana Clinical Research Corporation Community Health Assessment Project CHAP A Report: Self-Reported Health Assessment Principal Investigator: Paul J. Villeneuve, PhD Co-Investigator: Edward M. Sellers, MD, PhD Project Director: Linda M. Kasprzak, BA, MBA Ventana Clinical Research Corporation 340 College Street, Suite 400 Toronto, ON MST 3A9. DRAFT September 24, 2004 ‘This document is the proprietary information of Ventana Clinical Research Corporation Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or ‘otherwise, without the prior written consent of Ventana Clinical Research Corporation, Copyright ©2004, “CHAP A Report: Self-Reported Health Assessment Page 2 of 212 Draft 24-SEP-2004 ConfidentialVentana Clinical Research Corporation TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ABBREVIATIONS ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. 1, INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background. L.L.1 Framework for Community Health Assessment... 1.2 Research Objectives.. 1.3. Rationale 13.1 Chemicals of Concern, 1.3.2 Health Conditions associated with the CoCs 1.3.3 Previous research conducted in Port Colbome 1.4 CHAP-A Study Strengths and Limitations 2. METHODS 2.1 Overview of Study Design... 2.1.1 ‘Target Population 2.1.2 Sampling frame 2.13 Recruitment strategy 2.1.4 Surveys completed by individuals not on 2.15 Geographic study areas 2.1.6 Survey Procedures. 2.2. Survey Questionnaire 2.2.1 Comparisons with other survey tools... 2.22 Questionnaire Reviews 2.3 Data Collection... 2.4. Data Processing. Community Health Assessment Project we sampling frame, 2.5. The CHAP Privacy Framework and Data Security 36 2.5.1 Handling the Completed Questionnaires... 36 252 Security 36 2.5.3 Record retention. 39 CHAP A Report: Self-Reported Health Assessment Page 3 of 212 Draft 24-SEP-2004 Confidential