Completed Projects

Year: 2004
Project Title: Web-Based Survey of College Students - Pilot Study Assessing Flavored Cigarettes
Private Investigator: Hawk
Contact Person:  Fix
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Coordination of Randomized Control Trial (RCT)/ Tracing of Subjects to Maximize Response Rate
Project Type: WEB-BASED SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR designed and administered a web-based survey among college students.

Year: 2004-2005
Project Title: Retrospective Survey of RPCI Stop Smoking Clinic
Private Investigator:  Hyland
Contact Person: Van Deusen / Klein
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY                                                                                                                                                                    Vignette: SRDAR administered follow up surveys to participants who attended Roswell Park's stop smoking clinic since its commencement in 1982 to assess long-term smoking status.

Year: 2005
Project Title: MedAssist - 3 Year Follow-Up of Medicaid Subjects/ Baseline for Randomized Trial
Private Investigator: Mahoney
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Coordination of Randomized Control Trial (RCT)/ Tracing of Subjects to Maximize Response Rate
Project Type: CLINICAL
Vignette: SRDAR collaborated with the investigators for the design of the survey instrument and administered follow up interviews to participants who had participated in a clinical intervention 2 years earlier.  Additionally, subjects were randomized to study arms of a new intervention.

Year: 2005
Project Title: Obstructive Changes/Cytologic Abnormalities: X-Sectional Study of ETS Exposure
Private Investigator: Mahoney
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Coordination of Randomized Control Trial (RCT)/ Tracing of Subjects to  Maximize Response Rate
Project Type: CLINICAL
Vignette: SRDAR recruited subjects into a cross sectional study which looked at the relationship between secondhand smoke exposure and changes or cytologic abnormalities in the lungs. 

Year: 2005
Project Title: QuitLine Evaluation Cotinine Kit Assembly for Bio-validation                       
Private Investigator:  Cummings
Contact Person: Higbee
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: BIOLOGIC SAMPLE COLLECTION
Vignette: SRDAR coordiated and executed the biologic kit assembly, shipment, tracking, receipt, and lab analysis coordination for cotinine analysis of self-reported smokers at follow-up for bio-validation of smoking status.

Year: 2005
Project Title: New York State Tobacco Retailer Survey
Private Investigator:  Hyland
Contact Person: Li / King
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR administered telephone interviewers to tobacco retailer store owners or managers to assess their tobacco sale practices and perceptions of cigarette taxes. 
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Year: 2005
Project Title: LOWNIC Mahoney (Pilot Study )Clinical Trial Assessing Low Nicotine Cigarettes (QUEST)
Private Investigator: Mahoney
Contact Person:  Hyland
Service Provided: Survey Design and Administration/ Coordination of Visits for Clinical Protocol/ Biologic Kit Assembly (Cotinine)/ Receipt Control/ Coordination of Lab Analysis
Project Type: CLINICAL
Vignette: SRDAR assisted with initial clinic visit coordination, intensive time-sensitive follow-up surveys, biologic kit assembly, receipt and coordination of lab continine analysis (bio-validation for self-reported smoking status) for this clinical trial that assessed the effectiveness of nicotine-free cigarettes plus the nicotine replacement therapy patch on smoking cessation.

Year: 2005
Project Title: CEASE Study - A Cummings assessment of Tailored Brochures
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Maansi Travers
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration
Project Type: : FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW
Vignette: Unavailbale

Year: 2005
Project Title: Cognitive Pre-Testing/ Reliability Assessment and Quality Control Processes for Resubmission of LIP RO1 grant
Private Investigator: Giovino
Contact Person:  OÇonnor
Service Provided: Complying with all 'Pink Sheet' Requests by Reviewers (Generated Pilot Data, Completed Conitive Pre-Testing, and Carried Out Reliability Assessments)
Project Type: FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW
Vignette: SRDAR performed cognitive pre-testing on new survey questions which were designed for the LIP study.  Test-retest reliability assessments were performed.

Year: 2005
Project Title: Tobacco Specific Nitrosamine Pilot Study
Private Investigator: Giovino
Contact Person:  O’Connor
Service Provided: Recruitment of Subjects for Pilot Study & Coordination of Clinical Visits
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR recruited subjects into this pilot study and coordinated the clinical visits.

Year: 2005
Project Title: Data Abstraction of 'Old Epi Series'/ PEDS
Private Investigator: Hyland
Contact Person:  Peppone
Service Provided: Data Abstration/ Database Construction
Project Type: DATA ABSTRACTION
Vignette: Data abstraction was performed.

Year: 2005
Project Title: QuitLine Evaluation  3 Month Follow-Up Surveys
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts follow up surveys among NYS Smokers' Quitline clients to assess smoking status at 3-months and 12-months post Quitline services.

Year: 2005
Project Title: QuitLine Evaluation .12 Month Follow-Up Surveys
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: See above.

Year: 2005
Project Title: Surveillance of NYS Health Insurance Providers   Provision of Smoking Cessation Services
Private Investigator: Bax
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR contacted licensed managed care organizations in New York State to assess the level of smoking cessation services offered to insured and Medicaid clients across New York State.

Year: 2005
Project Title: RDD of the Province of Ontario -Pilot Study of Low Ignition Propensity (LIP) Cigarettes (Pilot Study)
Private Investigator: Giovino/ O'Connor
Contact Person: Van Deusen
Service Provided: Grant Write-Up & Survey Design & Administration
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR completed a pilot study among Ontario, Canada smokers to secure an R01 NIH grant.  Baseline data was completed before the low ignition propensity (LIP) cigarette law went into effect.  The latter R01 grant is currently funding the follow-up, after the LIP law went into effect.  Additionally, a cross-sectional study is being conducted in New York State, after the LIP law has been in effect.
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Year: 2005
Project Title: Evaluation of C-PREP Feedback Report
Private Investigator: Marshall
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Report Generation
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: Semi-structured interviews were administered to C-PREP participants in order to assess participants' perspectives of the C-PREP.  Survey data was compiled and used in the creation of a list of recommendations provided to the investigators.

In field (Active)

Year: 2006
Project Title: International Study to Obtain Bio-specimens to help Evaluate the Impact of National Level Tobacco Control Policies (Pilot Study)
Private Investigator: Hyland
Contact Person:  Fix
Service Provided: Biologic Kit Assembly (Cotinine)/ Receipt Control/ Coordination of Lab Analysis for 4 Country Study
Project Type: BIOLOGIC SAMPLE COLLECTION
Vignette: SRDAR is currently assembling, shipping, tracking, receiving and coordinating lab analysis of biologic kits.  Saliva samples and cigarette butts are being collected for lab analysis.

Year: 2006
Project Title: South Carolina Air Monitoring Report
Private Investigator: Dan Carrigan
Contact Person:  Higbee
Service Provided: technical assistance, data analysis, reporting
Project Type: AIR MONITORING
Vignette: [AIR]  SRDAR provides technical assistance, data analysis, and report generation for areas around the country in order to enable these areas to assess secondhand smoke exposure in their region. 

Year: 2006
Project Title: Oregon Air Monitoring Report
Private Investigator: Stacey Shubert
Contact Person:  Higbee
Service Provided: technical assistance, data analysis, reporting
Project Type: AIR MONITORING
Vignette: air

Year: 2006
Project Title: Arkansas Air Monitoring Report
Private Investigator: Cambre Horne
Contact Person:  Higbee
Service Provided: technical assistance, data analysis, reporting
Project Type: AIR MONITORING
Vignette: Not available

Year: 2006
Project Title: Promising Tobacco Control Interventions - 'No Strings Attached'
Private Investigator: Giovino
Contact Person:  Hysert / Hyland
Service Provided: Grant Write-Up/ Survey Design & Administration/ Data Analytic & Methodological Support
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: Organizations that serve women and girls are being contacted in order to assess the prevalence of written policies forbidding acceptance of donations from tobacco companies.  Data gathered from this baseline survey is being used to tailor organization-specific educational information and a face-to-face intervention will be performed this spring.  A follow-up interview will be performed to assess the effectiveness of the intervention on policy change within the organizations.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Evaluation of Erie/Niagara Tobacco Free Coalition from RTI Oversample of the ATS
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  King
Service Provided: Survey Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: The NYS Adult Tobacco Survey is augmented by an oversample of smokers in WNY annually.  SRDAR follows the previous years' oversample of smokers to conduct a follow-up survey and replenishes lost sample with a RDD cross-sectional survey. 
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Year: 2006
Project Title: Retailer Marketing Assessment
Private Investigator: Alford/Cummings
Contact Person:  King
Service Provided: In store pre/post retailer marketing intervention study
Project Type: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts observational assessments in local tobacco retailer stores to assess tobacco marketing practices, provide an intervention and follow-up to assess change in retailer practices.

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Year: 2006
Project Title: WNY Retailer Assessment
Private Investigator: Hyland
Contact Person:  King
Service Provided: In store pre/post retailer marketing intervention study
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: (See above)

Year: 2006
Project Title: WNY Clean Air Law Surveillance
Private Investigator: Alford/Cummings
Contact Person:  King
Service Provided: Hosptiality venue surveillance for compliance with clean air law
Project Type: OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts observational assessments in local hospitality venues to evaluate compliance with New York State's Clean Indoor Air Law.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Nassau County QuitLine Program Evaluation
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR administered 3-month follow-up surveys to assess smoking status among NYS Smokers' Quitline clients residing in Nassau County who received additional free nictotine replacement therapy. 
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Year: 2006
Project Title: Evaluating Low Ignition Propensity Cigarette Legislation
Private Investigator: Giovino
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: See RIP I project above.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Home Air Monitoring Study
Private Investigator: Alford
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Field work, data analysis, reporting
Project Type: AIR MONITORING
Vignette Pilot study on secondhand smoke exposure in homes was conducted among smoking and smoke-free homes.  Data was used as the basis for the Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free Coalition's "Fluffy Quits" Campaign which is focusing on educating smokers about the dangers and ramifications about smoking around household pets.

Year: 2006
Project Title: 9th grade survey - Livingston County
Private Investigator: Linda Motz
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: technical assistance, data analysis, reporting
Project Type: SCANNABLE FORMS
Vignette: Upon Livingston County's request, SRDAR is assisting in administration of 9th grade study on alcohol, tobacco and other drug use in Livingston County and will provide the final report.

Year: 2006
Project Title: QuitLine Evaluation.  3 Month Follow-Up Surveys, 2006
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts follow up surveys among NYS Smokers' Quitline clients to assess smoking status at 3-months and 12-months post Quitline services.

Year: 2006
Project Title:  QuitLine Evaluation  12 Month Follow-Up Surveys, 2006
Private Investigator: Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts follow up surveys among NYS Smokers' Quitline clients to assess smoking status at 3-months and 12-months post Quitline services.

Year: 2006
Project Title: QuitLine Health Care Plan Survey, 2006
Private Investigator: Bax/Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: Not Available
Vignette: Not available

Year: 2006
Project Title: Tobacco Cessation Center
Private Investigator: Blair/Cummings
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR conducts 3-month follow up interviews among clients who received free nicotine replacement therapy from the Tobacco Cessation Center.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Become an EX Evaluation
Private Investigator: Ursula Bauer
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR is conducting 3-month follow up interviews among New York State Smokers' Quitline clients to assess the efficacy of the "Become an Ex" Quitbook and media advertisements on quit rates.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Recruitment for a Dietary Intervention for Breast Cancer
Private Investigator: Susan McCann
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: recruitment of subjects to the intervention
Project Type: CLINICAL
Vignette: SRDAR conducts screening questionnaires among interested women and coordinates clinic visits for a clinical intervention that will assess the relationship between a dietarty intervention and breast cancer.

Year: 2006
Project Title: HMO Coverage for HPV vaccine
Private Investigator: Mahoney
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration/ Database Construction/ IRB Protocol Amendments
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR contacted licensed managed care organizations in New York State to assess the level of HPV Vaccine coverage offered to  clients across New York State.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Buccal Cell - Kit Assembly for QuitGene (Coordination of Sample Receipt and Analyses)
Private Investigator: Hyland / Cowell

Others (Not In field)

Year: 2006
Project Title: Promoting Tobacco and Cancer Control: Message Framing for Telephone Quitline Callers
Private Investigator: Ben Toll
Contact Person:  Van Deusen
Service Provided: 3 month follow-up surveys of Quitline callers
Project Type: TELEPHONE SURVEY
Vignette: SRDAR will conduct a 3-month evaluation among smokers to test a novel communication strategy for Smokers' Quitline counselors, gain-framed vs. loss-framed messages.

Year: 2006
Project Title: Pilot Study to Test Communication Messages on Opinions, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding Taxation of Cigarettes Sold to Non-Indians on Indian Reservations in Western New York
Private Investigator: Hyland
Contact Person:  Hyland
Service Provided: Survey Design & Administration & Database Construction
Project Type: Information unavailable
Vignette: not available