North Carolina

At a glance

This page includes information about CASPERs that took place in North Carolina. The information includes the year, type, location, event, report (if applicable), and the purpose associated with each CASPER.

2015

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Vance County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Gaston County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Rockingham County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

2014

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Durham County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed:

  • Emergency preparedness
  • Health communication
  • Health status and access to care (including exercise and diet behaviors)
  • Opinions of community improvement
  • Demographics

Report: 2014 Durham County Community Health Assessment

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Forsyth County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Pender County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed:

  • Opinions of Pender County
  • Health status
  • Community health
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Demographics
  • Opinions of the health department

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Chatham County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed opinions of the community, services and needs, and communication.

Report: Community Assessment

2013

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Wake County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Richmond County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

Perceptions of disaster recovery planning

Type: Preparedness

Location: New Hanover County

Purpose: Assess resident perception of disaster recovery planning.

Report: In press: Horney JA, Simon MC, Ricchetti-Masterson K, Berke P. Resident perception of disaster recovery planning in New Hanover County, NC. In press at the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment.

2012

Social vulnerability and hazard mitigation planning

Type: Preparedness

Location: Bertie County

Purpose: Measuring participation by socially vulnerable groups in hazard mitigation planning.

Report: Measuring participation by socially vulnerable groups in hazard mitigation planning, Bertie County, North Carolina

Assessing disaster preparedness

Type: Preparedness

Location: Alamance County

Purpose: Assess level of community awareness about services available before, during and after emergencies. Assess the prevalence of vulnerable populations.

Assessing disaster preparedness

Type: Preparedness

Location: Cabarrus County

Purpose: Assess level of community awareness about services available before, during and after emergencies. Assess the prevalence of vulnerable populations.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Davidson County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assess:

  • Community issues
  • Preventative care and health behaviors
  • Access to healthcare
  • Environmental health
  • Mental health
  • Disaster preparedness
  • Communication information

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Onslow County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed access to health care, health status, opinions of community, evacuation behaviors, and demographics.

Report: 2016 Onslow County Community Health Needs Assessment

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Gaston County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.

Report: Gaston County 2012 Community Health Assessment Report

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Montgomery County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed health problems, unhealthy behaviors, community issues, health status, emergency preparedness, and demographics.

Report: 2012 Montgomery County Community Health Assessment

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans Counties

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed:

  • Quality of life
  • County health, behavioral, and social problems
  • Community service problems and issues
  • Health status
  • Adolescent behaviors
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Demographics

2011

Effectiveness of messaging

Type: Response

Event: Wildfire

Location: Pender County

Purpose: Evaluate the effectiveness of public safety and public health messages received by residents during the previous year's wildfires.

Report: Community Assessments: Public Safety and Health Messaging during the 2011 Holly Shelter Game Land Wildfire, Pender County, NC

Association between actual and perceived flood risk and evacuation from Hurricane Irene

Type: Response

Event: Hurricane Irene

Location: Beaufort County

Purpose: Assess the association between perceived and actual risk of flooding and evacuation one month after Hurricane Irene made landfall.

Report: The association between actual and perceived flood risk and evacuation from Hurricane Irene, Beaufort County, North Carolina

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Bertie County

Purpose: Modified CASPER for reproductive health assessments after disasters (RHAD toolkit).

Report: Reproductive Health Assessment After Disasters: A Toolkit for U.S. Health Departments

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Forsyth County

Purpose: Modified CASPER (40×7) as part of larger public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed demographics as well as opinions on an array of:

  • Quality-of-life statements
  • Community issues
  • Lists of services
  • Health behaviors

Report: 2011 Forsyth County Community Health Assessment Report

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Gaston County

Purpose: Assessment on resident opinion on teen pregnancy and prevention strategies.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Granville County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed quality of life, community improvement, health information, health status, access to care, emergency preparedness, and demographics.

Report: Granville and Vance Counties Community Assessment

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Vance County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed quality of life, community improvement, health information, health status, access to care, emergency preparedness, and demographics.

Report: Granville and Vance Counties Community Assessment

2010

Knowledge and receipt of potassium iodide within the 10-mile emergency planning zone of a nuclear power plant

Type: Preparedness

Location: Wake, Johnston, Chatham, and Lee Counties

Purpose: Community survey of potassium iodide (KI) distribution and households' understanding of KI in the 10-mile emergency planning zone of a nuclear power plant.

Community health opinion survey

Type: Other

Location: Durham County

Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assessed quality of life, community problems and issues, health status, emergency preparedness, and demographics.

2009

Intent to receive H1N1 vaccine

Type: Other

Event: H1N1

Location: Alamance and Orange County

Purpose: Assess knowledge of and intention to receive pandemic vaccine (H1N1).

Report: Intent to Receive Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine, Compliance with Social Distancing and Sources of Information in NC, 2009

2008

Factors associated with evacuation

Type: Preparedness

Event: Hurricane

Location: Chowan, Perquimans and Pasquotank Counties

Purpose: Assess factors associated with evacatuion from Hurricane Isabel including evacuation behaviors, social cohesion, social control, social capital, and preparedness.

Reports:

Horney JA, MacDonald PDM, Van Willigen M, Berke P, Kaufman J. (2010) Individual actual or perceived flood risk: Did it predict evacuation from Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina? Risk Analysis 30 (3), 501-511.

Horney JA, MacDonald PDM, Van Willigen M, Berke P, Kaufman J. (2010) Factors associated with evacuation failure from Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, 2003. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 28 (1), 33-58.

2007

Hurricane preparedness

Type: Preparedness

Event: Hurricane

Location: Carteret County

Purpose: CASPER conducted six weeks prior to the start of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season to assess hurricane preparedness. Specifically, in the community such as having a disaster supply kit and evacuation plans.

Report: Horney JA, Snider C, Gammons L, Ramsey S. Factors associated with hurricane preparedness: Results of a pre-hurricane assessment. (2008) Journal of Natural Disasters 3 (2), 143-149.

2004

Needs after Hurricanes Isabel and Charley

Type: Response

Event: Hurricanes Isabel and Charley

Location: Affected area (multiple counties in the outer banks of North Carolina)

Purpose: Community needs after the hurricanes including food, water, utilities, hurricane-related illness and injury, and damage to the home.

Report: Rapid Community Health and Needs Assessments After Hurricanes Isabel and Charley- North Carolina, 2003-2004