CASPERs in North Carolina

2015 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Vance County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment


2015 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Gaston County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment


2015 – 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; and demographics
Report: http://healthydurham.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CHA-Final-Document.pdf [PDF – 15.4 MB]


2014 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Forsyth County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.


2014 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Pender County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assess opinions of Pender County, health status, community health, emergency preparedness, demographics, and opinions of the health department
Report: Appendices A-C: http://health.pendercountync.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dlMBh7jrxx4%3d&tabid=675


2014 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Chatham County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assess opinions of the community, services and needs, and communication
Report: http://www.chathamnc.org/Index.aspx? page=783


2013 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Wake County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.


2013 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Richmond County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.


2013 – 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: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271940985_Measuring_participation_by_socially_vulnerable_groups_in_hazard_mitig ation_planning_Bertie_County_North_Carolina


2012 – Assessing disaster preparedness

Type: Preparedness
Location: Alamance County
Purpose: Assess level of community awareness about services available before, during and after emergencies and the prevalence of vulnerable populations
Report: http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/assessing-disaster- preparedness-of-officials-and-residents-in-two-north-carolina-counties-2167-0587.1000125.php?aid=28292


2012 – Assessing disaster preparedness

Type: Preparedness
Location: Cabarrus County
Purpose: Assess level of community awareness about services available before, during and after emergencies and the prevalence of vulnerable populations
Report: http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/assessing-disaster- preparedness-of-officials-and-residents-in-two-north-carolina-counties-2167-0587.1000125.php?aid=28292


2012 – 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, and communication information.
Report: http://www.pendercountync.gov/hhs/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/06/2014-Community-Health-Assessment.pdf [PDF – 6.22 MB]


2012 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Onslow County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment. CASPER questions assess access to health care, health status, opinions of community, evacuation behaviors, and demographics.
Report:  https://www.onslowcountync.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3253/2016-OnslowCHA-Report-Final-


2012 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Gaston County
Purpose: CASPER as part of a public health assessment.
Report:  http://cms3.revize.com/revize/gastoncounty/Documents/health-and-human-services/health-department/final-gaston-cha-2012.pdf


2012 – 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: http://www.montgomerycountync.com/sites/default/files/health/documents/2014_09/2012%20CHA%20Document.pdf [PDF – 29.5 MB]


2012 – 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; and demographics.
Report: http://www.arhs- nc.org/community-health-assessments/2013/


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 years wildfires
Report: http://epi.publichealth.nc.gov/pdf/en2012-1.pdf [PDF – 1.62 MB]


2011 – 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: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.12115/abstract


2011 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Bertie County
Purpose: Modified CASPER for reproductive health assessments after disasters (RHAD toolkit)
Report: https://nciph.sph.unc.edu/RHAD/


2011 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Forsyth County
Purpose: Modified CASPER (40×7) as part of larger public health assessment. CASPER questions assess demographics as well as opinions on an array of quality-of-life statements, community issues, lists of services, and health behaviors.
Report: https://www.forsyth.cc/PublicHealth/Documents/CHA_REPORT.pdf [PDF – 6.1MB]


2011 – Community Health Opinion survey

Type: Other
Location: Gaston County
Purpose: Assessment on resident opinion on teen pregnancy and prevention strategies


2011 – 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: http://gvph.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2011-CHA-Granville-and-Vance-Counties_05-12.pdf [PDF – 4.47MB]


2011 – 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: http://gvph.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2011-CHA-Granville-and-Vance-Counties_05-12.pdf [PDF – 4.47MB]


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
Report: http://www.ijmed.org/articles/622/


2010 – 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: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011226


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.
Report: 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 and 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 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: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5336a3.htm