Baseline Characteristics and Generalizability of Participants in an Internet Smoking Cessation Randomized Trial

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 751-761

  Cha, Sarah ^a   Erar, Bahar ^b   Niaura, Raymond S ^a,c   Graham, Amanda L ^a,d  

^a American Legacy Foundation   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Research design; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING CESSATION; ADULT; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973655833     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: 15324796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-016-9804-x     Document Type: Article

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