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 New York State.
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.
No. This survey is only being conducted in New York state.
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 postcards you received from the New Yorkers’
Health Survey. If you have misplaced these letters and postcards, please call 1-877-212-7224.
To speak directly with someone at the New York State Department of Health, please call
1-518-474-1515, mention this study’s name, “The New Yorkers’ Health Survey,” and ask to
speak to Christina Ortega-Peluso, MPH.
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 de-identified, 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 New York 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 New York.
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 state of New York, 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
nyhealthsurvey@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 nyhealthsurvey@rti.org.
