Is web interviewing a good alternative to telephone interviewing? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nagelhout, Gera E ^a,b   Willemsen, Marc C ^a,b   Thompson, Mary E ^c   Fong, Geoffrey T ^c,d   Van Den Putte, Bas ^e   De Vries, Hein ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STIVORO for a Smoke free Future   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953640797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-351     Document Type: Review

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