KIQNIC Team is Developing Tools for Distribution to Quitline Community
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
The KIQNIC (Knowledge Integration in Quitlines: Networks that Improve Cessation)
project wrapped up its third annual survey in August. Data cleaning is almost
complete on the 2011 survey data, and the preliminary figures show that 155
individuals completed the survey. This translates into 85 of 97 (87.6% of)
possible organizations participating and 63 of 65 (96.9% of) possible quitlines
participating. Principal Investigator Scott Leischow expressed the research
team’s gratitude, "We
are really thrilled with the high response rate, which is critical to social
network analysis projects. This means that we should have a pretty accurate
snapshot of information sharing across the quitline community in the past year.
It also means that we should be able to provide helpful information back to the
quitlines based on the data we collected.”
The
research team is collaborating with the NAQC KIQNIC Workgroup to develop tools that will aim to help
NAQC members better understand how information about quitline practices is
shared throughout the network of quitlines. Workgroup
members are also helping the researchers develop additional resources for
quitlines based on the data that have been collected. The first of these
resources will be released early in 2012, and will be publicized here in
Connections and also on the KIQNIC
website.
If you would like more information about KIQNIC, or would
like to volunteer on the NAQC KIQNIC Workgroup, contact Jessie Saul
at jsaul@naquitline.org.
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