This survey focuses on health. We want to better understand factors that affect adults’ health
status and their beliefs about health conditions.
The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.
This is your opportunity to tell us your views and experiences related to health and
tobacco use. If you complete the survey, we will send you $20, as a token
of our appreciation for your participation. You can choose to receive the $20 in the form of
a check or an Amazon gift code.
We randomly selected your address from a list of all addresses in the USA.
The survey includes questions on health, use of tobacco products, and exposure to secondhand
smoke. The survey also includes questions on your views about public smoking policies and
anti-tobacco campaigns you may have seen on television or online.
RTI International is a nonprofit
research institute based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. RTI partnered with the
New York State Department of Health to create this survey.
Your Login ID can be found in any of the letters or folded postcards you received from the
National Health Behaviors and Opinions Survey. If you have misplaced these letters and
postcards, please
call 1-877-212-7224.
The New York State Department of Health sponsors this survey.
To speak directly with someone at the New York State Department of Health, please call
1-518-474-1515, mention this study’s name, “National Health Behaviors and Opinions Survey” and
ask to speak to Dr. Ola Fajobi, DrPH.
Yes, but only your answers will be shared. They will
not receive any of your personal information so no one in the government will
know who gave the answers.
Yes. Information collected in the questionnaire is encrypted at all times.
Yes. The information that you provide will be deidentified, which means that it will not be
connected to your name or other personal information.
Yes. All of the information you provide will be kept strictly confidential. We appreciate your
willingness to provide answers, and we take safeguarding this information very seriously.
No. Your address was randomly selected for this survey.
Yes. You were scientifically selected to
represent thousands of other US residents who were not selected to participate. We
need to include adults with all kinds of experiences and views on smoking and health,
including those that do not smoke.
Our survey protocols require that we select one adult from your household to interview. We ask
this question to help us randomly select this one person. That way, we can be sure that the
study represents all adults in our country.
We are just looking to interview one adult in each household, in this case the one with the next
birthday. This random selection helps to ensure that our participants reflect the population of
the entire country, not just people who are easiest to contact or most willing to participate.
Unfortunately, only those who were invited to participate in this study may complete the survey.
By limiting the people who may participate to those who were randomly selected, we ensure that
the results are scientifically valid and accurate.
At the end of the online survey, it will ask you how you’d like to get your $20.
If you choose to receive an Amazon gift code, the survey program will ask you for your email
address. If you provide an email address, we’ll use that to send a gift code to you, through
Amazon’s gift code distribution system. This may take up to 3 weeks to arrive in your email
mailbox.
If you choose to receive a check, the survey program will ask you for your name. If you provide
a name, we’ll use that to print your check and then we’ll send it to the same postal address
where you received your original survey invitation. This may take up to four to six weeks to
arrive in your mailbox.
If you have questions about the study, please call
1-877-212-7224.
You can also email your question to our survey
manager, Aiax Ferranco, at ushealthsurvey@rti.org.
If you have any questions after reading this page, please
contact the RTI Office of Research
Protection at 1-866-214-2043.
You can also email your question to our survey manager,
Aiax Ferranco, at ushealthsurvey@rti.org.