Integrative Analytic Methods Using Population-Level Cross-Sectional Data. Health Information National Trends Survey.

摘要

The Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) is a nationally representative cross-sectional survey that has been administered every few years by the National Cancer Institute since 2003. The HINTS target population is all civilian non-institutionalized adults aged 18 or older in the United States. HINTS is unique in that it collects data on the American public's need for, access to, and use of health-related information and health-related behaviors, perceptions and knowledge (Hesse, Moser, Rutten, & Kreps, 2006; Nelson, Kreps, Hesse, Croyle, Willis, Arora et al., 2004). The primary goal of HINTS is to monitor changes in the rapidly evolving field of health communication. The most recent version of HINTS administration (referred to as HINTS 4) involves four separate mail-mode data collection cycles in a three-year field period that began late in 2011 and will extend into 2014. The first cycle of HINTS 4 data were made available to the public in early 2012 and will be one of the data sets used to demonstrate different analytic techniques in this report (Cycle 2 data will be available in June, 2013).