Promoting Healthy Development

The purpose of this manual is to provide detailed guidelines for implementing the Promoting Healthy Development Survey-PLUS (PHDS-PLUS) in Medicaid and other programs and settings. The PHDS-PLUS is a parent survey that assesses whether young children (3–48 months old) receive nationally recommended preventive and developmental services. It is a telephone-administered version of the original PHDS, containing additional items about the child's health, health care utilization, parent's health, and other socio-demographic characteristics.

There are six steps necessary to implement the PHDS-PLUS:

Step 1: Learn about the PHDS-PLUS
Step 2: Specify your PHDS-PLUS implementation strategy
Step 3: Prepare for and conduct survey administration
Step 4: Monitor survey administration and prepare for data analysis
Step 5: Construct quality measures and analytic variables
Step 6: Report your PHDS-PLUS findings.

This manual is organized according to the above-listed steps and their respective subcomponents. Each step is vital to successfully implement a PHDS-PLUS project in your program or setting. Click on the links below to be taken to that section of the PDFs, or click here to open the full manual (335 pages).

Table of Contents

Step 1		Learn About the Promoting Healthy Development Survey-PLUS
1.1		What is the PHDS-PLUS?
1.2		What is measured by the PHDS-PLUS?
1.3		How has the PHDS-PLUS been used in Medicaid?
1.4		What is the added value of the PHDS-PLUS for Medicaid?
1.5		Development of the PHDS-PLUS
1.6		Requirements to implement the PHDS-PLUS
1.7		PHDS-PLUS resources
Step 2		Specify Your PHDS-PLUS Implementation Strategy
2.1		Clarify where you want to end up
2.2		Identify and engage key partners
2.3		Plan and confirm the feasibility of your sampling strategy
2.4		Develop and test any supplemental survey items
2.5		Identify analytic information to be collected at the time of sampling
Step 3		Prepare for Survey Administration
3.1		Organize your implementation team
3.2		Create the sampling frame and analytic variable data sets
3.3		Layout your survey administration process and timeline
3.4		Finalize survey design and CATI set-up
Step 4		Conduct Survey Administration and Prepare for Data Analysis
4.1		Conduct survey, track responses, and calculate response rate
4.2		Create, clean, and code your PHDS-PLUS data set
4.3		Integrate updated enrollment and utilization information
4.4		Weight your data set to represent the target population
Step 5		Construct Quality Measures and Plan for Reporting PHDS-PLUS Findings
5.1		Calculate core PHDS-PLUS quality variables
5.2		Calculate core PHDS-PLUS analytic variables
5.3		Calculate additional quality measures and analytic variables
5.4		Evaluate quality measurement results for subgroups of children
Step 6		Report Your PHDS-PLUS Findings to Stimulate System Change
6.1		Who: Identify and learn about your key audience
6.2		Why and What: Select your primary purpose and key information to include in your reports
6.3		Where, When, How: Decide the best way to present your PHDS-PLUS information
Appendices
1		Overview of the PHDS-PLUS survey questions
2		Example Pre-Notification Letter
3		Text for the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
4		Sample state policy audience communication template
5		Sample health care provider communication template
6		Sample family communication template
7		Sample health care plan communication template