A tailored Internet-delivered intervention for smoking cessation designed to encourage social support and treatment seeking: Usability testing and user tracing

Informatics for Health and Social Care

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-19

  Houston, Tom K ^a,b,c   Ford, Daniel E ^d,e  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; physician patient relations; smoking cessation; social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 54849406055     PISSN: 17538157     EISSN: 17538165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230701842240     Document Type: Article

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