Secondary Data Analysis Databases

[irish80122]

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Hi everyone!

I am starting a project looking at the relation between risk-taking behavior, depression, and suicidal ideation or behavior and I am hoping to find a good database that is hopefully either available to the public (i.e. free, I know I may still have to apply to use the database) or may be available to a strapping young graduate student at a large university. Does anyone have any suggestions of databases I should look into? I am very new to secondary data analysis so I am not sure where to start. Thank you so much!

 

[Ollie123]

http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/index.php

You may have already found it, but its the first one that springs to mind for me. Not sure if it has exactly what you're looking for though.

 

[irish80122]

Thank you Ollie, I hadn't seen that one yet! Any other thoughts? I am working on the NVDRS but I am open to other options as well!

 

[noneotherthanoz]

PsycINFO, hands down.

For full access, will probably need to go through your university.

 

[irish80122]

Wrong kind of database, though it is a very handy one. I need one with actual participant data so that I can run analyses on the variables listed as a pilot study for further exploration (and also because risk-taking is hard to measure in an experiment).

 

[Anon15]

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/

Only one I know of...

 

[LM02]

Check out the NESARC. It's the largest psychiatric epi study that has been conducted in the US so far. Don't worry that it was funded by NIAAA - they have tons of data on other Axis I conditions and related features. And given your interest in risk-taking behaviors, I imagine that there might be some good stuff in there.

 

[irish80122]

Thank you so much for all of these suggestions, I am following up on them now! Keep them coming!