The Army STARRS Project: Extracting Administrative Data and Early Findings

• Activity Number: 296
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Mental Health Statistics Section
• Author(s): Alan Zaslavsky and Steven Heeringa*
• Companies: Harvard Medical School and University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
• Keywords: suicide ; mental health ; administrative data

Abstract

The Army maintains a vast array of databases on soldiers containing information on a multiplicity of topics. The Army STARRS project team reviewed many of these databases to identify variables predictive of suicide and other behaviors associated with suicidality. In this presentation we will discuss the process of selecting variables and reconciling inconsistencies among the databases, and present some initial findings on prediction.