tailieunhanh - Documentation for the Survey of Pesticide Use During the Gulf War - The Survey Instrument

This report reproduces (1) advance materials sent to 2,005 Gulf War veterans as part of a survey investigating the use of pesticides during Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield and (2) the survey used by the telephone interviewers. Respondents statistically represented the . military population in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations between August 1990 and July 1991. Survey results, reported in MR-1018/12-OSD, Pesticide Use During the Gulf War: A Survey of Gulf War Veterans. | Documentation for the Survey of Pesticide Use During the Gulf War THE SURVEY INSTRUMENT Dalia M. Spektor Elaine Reardon Sarah K. Cotton Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense National Defense Research Institute RAND Approved for public release distribution unlimited PREFACE This report documents the survey instrument used to assess the extent of pesticide use during the Gulf War and the letter and other advance materials sent out to potential participants. RAND s analysis of the data collected through the survey is reported in Pesticide Use During the Gulf War A Survey of Gulf War Veterans MR-1018 12-OSD 2000 . This research was sponsored by the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War illnesses and was carried out jointly by RAND Health s Center for Military Health Policy Research and the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the National Defense Research Institute NDRI . NDRI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense the Joint Staff the unified commands and the defense agencies. Advance Materials 1. Letter to Potential Respondents 2. Background Brochure 3. Gulf War Map Calendar Key Events and Fact .