BRFSS and PRAMS Telephone Data Collection Services

Description

The Mississippi State Department of Health is seeking a Contractor to perform its telephone data collection services.The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) collects information related to chronic health conditions, use of preventive services, and health behaviors from non-institutionalized adults aged 18 years and older in Mississippi. Its data are collected through telephone interviews performed by a contractor. The Contractor will collect random sample telephone survey data related to health risk factors and conditions on the adult population in Mississippi for the BRFSS Program. The contractor will be responsible for obtaining a sufficient sample from the CDC to collect the targeted number of complete interviews, training interviewers on the new survey instrument, completing the required number of interviews in accordance with survey guidelines, performing ongoing quality control of the survey collection, running data edits on the collected data and correcting any errors, submitting the data to CDC within 30 days of the end of the survey year and working with CDC to correct any problem that may be identified with respect to the data. The sample size for the MS BRFSS survey is between 4,000 and 5,000 completes annually.The Contractor must have at least 7 years of recent experience conducting BRFSS data collection activities and must have successfully collected BRFSS data for at least 10 states/sites.PRAMS is the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. It is a joint surveillance project between state, territorial, or local health departments and CDC's Division of Reproductive Health. PRAMS was developed in 1987 to reduce infant morbidity and mortality by influencing maternal behaviors before, during, and immediately after live birth. The purpose of PRAMS is to find out why some infants are born healthy and others are not. The survey asks new mothers questions about their pregnancy and their new infant. The questions give