This DOMINGUEZ_readme20240415.txt file was generated on 20240415 by Madison Golden

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset
Evaluation of United States Air Force Hearing Conservation Educational Materials 


2. Author Information


  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Thomas Dominguez
           Institution: University of Utah - Family and Preventive Medicine
           Address: 375 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City UT
           Email: thomas.dominguez@utah.edu
	   ORCID: 0000-0001-7551-7010


  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Lucas Pettit
           Institution: University of Utah - Family and Preventive Medicine
      	   ORCID: 0000-0002-7472-2765

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Clayton Garner
           Institution: University of Utah - Family and Preventive Medicine
	   ORCID: 0009-0003-2592-3303

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Rod Handy
           Institution: East Tennessee State University - Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Sciences
	   ORCID: 0000-0001-8285-3426

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Darrah Sleeth
           Institution: University of Utah - Family and Preventive Medicine
 	   ORCID: 0000-0002-8519-9092


3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date)
20230622 to 20230801


4. Geographic location of data collection (where was data collected?): 
NA - Collected electronically


5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
United States Air Force through the Air Force Institute of Technology



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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Public Domain


2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
NA


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
NA


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
NA


5. Was data derived from another source?
Yes, Hearing Conservation educational materials from active-duty, continental United States Air Force bases


6. Recommended citation for the data:
Dominguez, Thomas; Pettit, Lucas; Garner, Clayton; Handy, Rod and Sleeth, Darrah. "Evaluation of United States Air Force Hearing Conservation Educational Materials". The Hive. doi.org/10.7278/S50d-9hy0-dbvp



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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
   A. Filename: 20240105_DATA_Dominguez.xlsx
      Short description: Evaluator responses to compliance, understandability, actionability, and readability criteria, by base and type       


3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:
Hearing Conservation educational materials from active-duty, continental United States Air Force bases


4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? yes/no
No



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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
An electronic copy of educational materials given to workers upon entering the Hearing Conservation Program was requested by telephone and received by email from active-duty, continental United States Air Force Bases. Educational materials were evaluated for compliance, understandability, and actionability by three of the authors and readability by one of the authors, generating the included data.


2. Methods for processing the data: 
Evaluations were collected using Qualtrics, recoded, and output to an XLS file.


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
Key is included in data file.


4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
NA


5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
None; descriptive evaluation of hearing conservation educational materials was completed electronically.


6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
Any duplicate or mismatched data entries were identified, clarified, and categorized appropriately in post-analysis.


7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
NA



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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: 20240105_DATA_Dominguez.xlsx
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1. Number of variables:
46


2. Number of cases/rows: 
201


3. Variable List
A key with the variable list can be found in the data file.



4. Missing data codes:
NA


5. Specialized formats of other abbreviations used
See key.