To: Members of NBER Programs on Health Care and Health Economics:
NIH/National Institute on Mental Health is making a comprehensive data
set (RAISE) available for secondary data analysis. Details are below.
Availability of RAISE Data for Secondary Data Analysis
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-MH-16-006.html
Under an NIMH-funded contract, the Feinstein Institute for Medical
Research carried out the landmark Recovery After an Initial
Schizophrenia Episode- Early Treatment Program study (RAISE-ETP).
Findings from the RAISE-ETP cluster-randomized clinical trial showed
that Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for young people with first
episode psychosis (FEP) produced superior improvements in symptoms and
functioning compared to typical FEP care and that this treatment is
cost-effective. RAISE-ETP is the largest and only multi-site randomized
clinical trial of CSC in the United States, involving 404 participants
with FEP in 34 clinical sites across the country.
The RAISE ETP data will be available to the research community at large
for secondary data analyses beginning on July 15, 2016, via the NIMH
National Database for Clinical Trials (NDCT) at
https://data-archive.nimh.nih.gov/ndct/).
The RAISE-ETP dataset is a national scientific resource and offers an
unprecedented opportunity for researchers to address critical questions
about FEP and CSC that were beyond the scope of the RAISE-ETP contract.
Extensive data have been collected in numerous domains--psychopathology,
general medical health, work and school participation, service use,
medications and side effects, substance use, neurocognition, insurance
status, and many other areas--over the 2-year intervention period. Data
from the RAISE Implementation and Evaluation Study are already available
through the NDCT. See
https://ndar.nih.gov/edit_collection.html?id=2284
Investigators wishing to conduct analyses with either RAISE data set
will need to submit their data access request through the NIMH NDCT.
Researchers might consider seeking support for their work through the
NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03) mechanism, which supports
secondary analysis of existing data. Other NIMH funding mechanisms might
be appropriate for larger projects using RAISE data.
Janet Stein
Program Administrator
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 588-0366
fax: (617) 868-2742
http://www.nber.org/sendthisfile/jbstein
Received on Wed Jun 29 2016 - 17:29:11 EDT
