Previously there were several fields used for race (documented below in deprecated section).

The original values were mapped to the following OpenClinica data elements:

1- White
2- Black/African American
4- American Indian or Alaska Native (specify enrolled or principal tribe)
5- Asian
6- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
7- Other
8- Unknown

1- No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
2- Yes, Puerto Rican
3- Yes, Mexican, Mexican American or Chicano
4- Yes, Cuban
5- Yes, Other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino (specify group)

The only difference in these fields when moved the the WRAP Freeze are that the "What is your race?" field is broken into:

race1

race2

race3

Currently we have no participants with more than 3 races selected, this logic may need to be addressed if that happens.

There have been two questions asked of WRAP Participants in regards to their race or ethnic category.

The first question was asked early on in the "Entry Assessment Form" at their first Visit.  The question was:

This question was then followed up in the "Personal and Family Background" assessment of their second Visit

with the following question:

Because of the significant amount of variability in the possible responses, including the free-text fields

("Other Spanish / Hispanic / Latino (specify group: _______)",

"American Indian or Alaska Native (specify enrolled or principal tribe: ____________)" and

"Other (specify: ____________)" ), it was impossible to create SQL that would take into account all

of the possible responses, and determine a Race Assignment.  So, all of the observed responses were

placed into a table, named "codRaceEthnicityDeterminations".  For each observed combination of responses,

a "WRAP Race Assignment", "NIH Enrollment Form Assignment", "GAAIN Race Assignment" and

"GAAIN Ethnicity Assignment" were assigned by Sterling Johnson and Allen Wenzel.

A VBA function was created, named "FindParticipantRaceEthnicity", that is used in queries to return the

"WRAPRaceAssignment" for a WRAP Participant given their responses to the two race / ethnicity related

questions.  This is the function that produces the values for the "WRAPRaceAssignment" variable in the

"MiscVars" table of the WRAP Data Freezes.

It should be noted that before each WRAP Data Freeze, the observed responses for the two race / ethnicity

questions for all WRAP Participants are compared to the entries in the "codRaceEthnicityDeterminations" table,

and additional table entries are added if new response combinations are observed.

Lastly, it should be noted that this process has some limitations.  If in the second question above more than one

race or ethnicity was selected, and/or if the WRAP Participant answered both the first and second questions above,

and the responses differed, then the "WRAP Race Assignment", "NIH Enrollment Form Assignment",

"GAAIN Race Assignment" and "GAAIN Ethnicity Assignment" fields in the

"codRaceEthnicityDeterminations" table were assigned a single race / ethnicity value by Sterling Johnson and

Allen Wenzel based on their best professional judgement.  If there is an interest in the component race / ethnicities

reported by the WRAP Participant, then the "race", "Race_W2_Or_W1Post2016" and "RaceOth" fields

in the "Demographics" table should be consulted directly.

If you have any questions about this, please contact Allen Wenzel of WRAP.