Longitudinal Uses of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.

Objectives: The Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study is a nationally representative study of the US population on tobacco use and its effects on health, with 3 waves of data collection between 2013 and 2016. Prior work described the methods of the first wave. In this paper, we describe the methods of the subsequent 2 waves and provide recommendations for how to conduct longitudinal analyses of PATH Study data.

Variable selection and raking in propensity scoring.

This paper discusses some practical issues in applying propensity scoring in the context of endpoint analysis in a pre-/posttest longitudinal design with an ordinal measure of treatment intensity and a high-dimensional potential covariate space: how many covariates to include in propensity models; how to evaluate the adequacy of tentative propensity models; and how to tailor models to provide hypercontrol on a limited subset of covariates. These issues arose in the evaluation of a health communication program.

Lost productive work time costs from health conditions in the United States: results from the American Productivity Audit.

The American Productivity Audit (APA) is a telephone survey of a random sample of 28,902 U.S. workers designed to quantify the impact of health conditions on work.

Lost productive time and cost due to common pain conditions in the US workforce.

Context: Common pain conditions appear to have an adverse effect on work, but no comprehensive estimates exist on the amount of productive time lost in the US workforce due to pain.

Objective: To measure lost productive time (absence and reduced performance due to common pain conditions) during a 2-week period.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional study using survey data from the American Productivity Audit (a telephone survey that uses the Work and Health Interview) of working adults between August 1, 2001, and July 30, 2002.

Cost of lost productive work time among US workers with depression.

Context: Evidence consistently indicates that depression has adversely affected work productivity. Estimates of the cost impact in lost labor time in the US workforce, however, are scarce and dated.

Objective: To estimate the impact of depression on labor costs (ie, work absence and reduced performance while at work) in the US workforce.