title: Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for the 2015 Administration of NCI's Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-FDA 2015.
abstract: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) to monitor population trends in cancer communication practices, information preferences, health risk behaviors, attitudes, and cancer knowledge. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized HINTS as a unique data resource for informing its health communication endeavors and partnered with NCI to field HINTS-FDA 2015. HINTS-FDA 2015 was a self-administered paper instrument sent by mail May 29 to September 8, 2015, using a random probability-based sample of U.S. postal addresses stratified by county-level smoking rates, with an oversampling of high and medium-high smoking strata to increase the yield of current smokers responding to the survey. The response rate for HINTS-FDA 2015 was 33% (N = 3,738). The yield of current smokers (n = 495) was lower than expected, but the sampling strategy achieved the goal of obtaining more former smokers (n = 1,132). Public-use HINTS-FDA 2015 data and supporting documentation have been available for download and secondary data analyses since June 2016 at http://hints.cancer.gov . NCI and FDA encourage the use of HINTS-FDA for health communication research and practice related to tobacco-related communications, public knowledge, and behaviors as well as beliefs and actions related to medical products and dietary supplements.
authors.affiliation: a Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences , National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Kelly D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Blake
authors.affiliation: b Office of Science , Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration , Silver Spring , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Portnoy
authors.affiliation: c Tobacco Control Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences , National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Annette R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.affiliation: d Office of Analytics and Outreach , Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration , College Park , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Chung-Tung Jordan
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: d Office of Analytics and Outreach , Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration , College Park , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Serena C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.affiliation: b Office of Science , Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug Administration , Silver Spring , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Backlund
authors.affiliation: e Westat, Inc. , Rockville , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cantor
authors.affiliation: e Westat, Inc. , Rockville , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Lloyd
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.affiliation: e Westat, Inc. , Rockville , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: e Westat, Inc. , Rockville , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caporaso
authors.affiliation: e Westat, Inc. , Rockville , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Terisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: f Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences , National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Richard P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.affiliation: a Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences , National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA.
authors.forename: Bradford W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Hesse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D058015:Health Communication / Q000639:trends*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000639:trends*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054547:National Cancer Institute (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D057240:Patient Preference; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration; D055815:Young Adult