Sponsored by the Utah Department of Health in Partnership with RTI International
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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 15 minutes to complete.
No. Taking this survey is completely voluntary. But it is important that we include your views and
experiences. To ensure the accuracy of survey results, we need to complete surveys with as many eligible
Utah residents as possible.
No, unfortunately we’re only surveying Utah residents. You can let us know that you’re not eligible for
the survey, by doing one of the following:
Enter your survey access code on the survey website (uthealthsurvey.rti.org) and for the first
question, select “There are no adults eligible for this survey in this household.”
Call the survey manager at RTI International at 877-254-1840. If you leave a
voicemail, please include your survey access code or your mailing address.
After you complete one of these steps, we will remove you from future mailings.
This is your opportunity to tell us your views and experiences related
to health and tobacco use. If you complete your survey online, we will also send you a check
or VISA gift card
for $20 dollars, as a token of our appreciation for your participation.
We randomly selected your address from a list of all addresses in Utah.
The survey includes questions on health, use of tobacco products, and exposure to secondhand smoke. The
survey also includes questions about illegal cannabis use behaviors and 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 among Utah residents.
RTI International is a not-for-profit
research organization based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. RTI partnered with the Utah
Department of Health and Human Services to create this survey.
Your Login ID can be found in any of the letters or postcards you
received from the Utah health survey. If you have misplaced these letters and postcards, please
email UTHealthSurvey@rti.org or call 877-254-1840.
You may call the toll-free number 877-254-1840 or
email our study at UTHealthSurvey@rti.org.
Absolutely not. Your name and contact will be kept private and confidential.
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 randomly selected to represent thousands
of other Utah 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 randomly select one person and ensure that the study represents all adults in Utah.
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 Utah, 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 survey, we will ask you for your name and address information so that we can send you
your check or VISA gift card in the mail. This may take up to four to six weeks to arrive in your mailbox.
If you have questions about the study, please call 877-254-1840. You can also email your question to our survey manager, Brian Cunningham-Rhoads,
at UTHealthSurvey@rti.org.
Thank you for considering our survey. Many people find the survey interesting once they get started.
You can start the survey and at any point if you’d like to stop, you can exit the survey
If you would like to be removed from future mailings you can do one of the following:
