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Kirsten Barrett
Senior Survey Researcher
Kirsten Barrett is a senior survey researcher with methodological expertise in web and multimode surveys, questionnaire design, instrument testing, proxy utilizations, and secondary data analysis. She has experience in health care access and quality, patient safety, health information technology, and services for the underserved, including those with disabilities.
Barrett leads instrument design on one of Mathematica’s largest disability-related projects, the National Beneficiary Survey. She is also the deputy survey director on the Children’s Health Insurance Plan 10-State Evaluation. Barrett also serves as the project director on the Evaluation of the Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing Incentive Programs and as the survey director on the Partnership for Patients National Evaluation. In the past, she directed the Child Care Access Means Parents in School project and Advancing the Development of Performance Measures for Plans and Providers Serving People with Disabilities, a study to determine the validity of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems® for people with activity limitations. Barrett has also served as the survey director on studies related to residential treatment for youth with emotional disturbances, health information technology, and the supply and demand for clinicians treating people with HIV/AIDS.
Barrett serves as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Women’s Health Issues, and Health Policy. Her work has been published in Women’s Health Issues, Accountability in Research, the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, and the American Journal of Health Promotion. She has presented numerous papers at the American Association of Public Opinion Research annual conferences. Barrett holds a Ph.D. in education from Virginia Commonwealth University and an M.P.T. in physical therapy from Hahnemann University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Web based methodological multimode surveys
- Questionnaire design and secondary data analysis
- Health care access, quality, and services for the underserved
- Collecting data from proxy respondents
- Use of incentives to minimize non-response
- National Beneficiary Survey
- Partnership for Patients National Evaluation
- Children’s Health Insurance Plan 10-State Evaluation
- Evaluation of the Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program
- Manuscript reviewer, Women’s Health Issues, Disability and Rehabilitation, Journal of the American Board for Family Medicine
- Abstract reviewer, American Association of Public Opinion Research Annual Conference
- "Conducting Surveys with Proxies: Evaluating a Standardized Measure to Determine Need" (July 2012)
- "Is There a Trade-off Between Quality and Cost? Telephone Versus Face-to-Face Interviewing of Persons with Disabilities" (February 2012)
- "Seclusion and Restraint Practices in Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Youth." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (January 2012)