R Dataset / Package mosaicData / HELPmiss
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the HELPmiss data set which pertains to Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary Care. The HELPmiss data set is found in the mosaicData R package. You can load the HELPmiss data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("HELPmiss"). This will load the data into a variable called HELPmiss. If R says the HELPmiss data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("mosaicData") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the HELPmiss R data set. The size of this file is about 62,531 bytes.
Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary Care
Description
The HELP study was a clinical trial for adult inpatients recruited from a detoxification unit. Patients with no primary care physician were randomized to receive a multidisciplinary assessment and a brief motivational intervention or usual care, with the goal of linking them to primary medical care.
Usage
data(HELPmiss)
Format
Data frame with 470 observations on the following variables.
-
age
subject age at baseline (in years) -
anysub
use of any substance post-detox: a factor with levelsno
yes
-
cesd
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression measure of depressive symptoms at baseline (higher scores indicate more symptoms) -
d1
lifetime number of hospitalizations for medical problems (measured at baseline) -
daysanysub
time (in days) to first use of any substance post-detox -
dayslink
time (in days) to linkage to primary care -
drugrisk
Risk Assessment Battery drug risk scale at baseline -
e2b
number of times in past 6 months entered a detox program (measured at baseline) -
female
0 for male, 1 for female -
sex
a factor with levelsmale
female
-
g1b
experienced serious thoughts of suicide in last 30 days (measured at baseline): a factor with levelsno
yes
-
homeless
housing status: a factor with levelshoused
homeless
-
i1
average number of drinks (standard units) consumed per day, in the past 30 days (measured at baseline) -
i2
maximum number of drinks (standard units) consumed per day, in the past 30 days (measured at baseline) -
id
subject identifier -
indtot
Inventory of Drug Use Consequences (InDUC) total score (measured at baseline) -
linkstatus
post-detox linkage to primary care (0 = no, 1 = yes) -
link
post-detox linkage to primary care:no
yes
-
mcs
SF-36 Mental Component Score (measured at baseline, higher scores are better) -
pcs
SF-36 Physical Component Score (measured at baseline, higher scores are better) -
pss_fr
perceived social support by friends (measured at baseline) -
racegrp
race/ethnicity: levelsblack
hispanic
other
white
-
satreat
any BSAS substance abuse treatment at baseline:no
yes
-
sexrisk
Risk Assessment Battery sex risk score (measured at baseline) -
substance
primary substance of abuse:alcohol
cocaine
heroin
-
treat
randomized to HELP clinic:no
yes
Details
Eligible subjects were adults, who spoke Spanish or English, reported alcohol, heroin or cocaine as their first or second drug of choice, resided in proximity to the primary care clinic to which they would be referred or were homeless. Patients with established primary care relationships they planned to continue, significant dementia, specific plans to leave the Boston area that would prevent research participation, failure to provide contact information for tracking purposes, or pregnancy were excluded.
Subjects were interviewed at baseline during their detoxification stay and follow-up interviews were undertaken every 6 months for 2 years. A variety of continuous, count, discrete, and survival time predictors and outcomes were collected at each of these five occasions.
This dataset is a superset of the HELPrct data with 17 subjects with partially observed data on some of the baseline variables. This is a subset of the HELPfull data which includes 5 timepoints and many additional variables.
Source
http://www.math.smith.edu/help
References
Samet JH, Larson MJ, Horton NJ, Doyle K, Winter M, and Saitz R. Linking alcohol and drug-dependent adults to primary medical care: A randomized controlled trial of a multi-disciplinary health intervention in a detoxification unit. Addiction, 2003; 98(4):509-516.
See Also
HELPrct
, and HELPfull
.
Examples
data(HELPmiss)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.