METHOD
College Sample
We used an anonymous, cross-sectional survey completed
by a sample of college students from 2 southeastern universities
in fall 2002 and spring 2003 to collect data. The questionnaire
was administered as either an anonymous paper
survey in an introductory health education course or online.
Students gave passive consent to participate in the study
after they read an informed-consent letter. Teaching assistants
distributed the survey in the health education course.
To administer the online survey, we recruited students from
advertisements in the college newspaper and fliers. We emailed
interested students a description of the study, a log-in
code, and a password to take the survey online. After logging
into the online survey, they clicked I agree as consent to participate
in the study and completed it by submitting data on
multiple Web pages.