Lorig, Kate R.; Ritter, Philip L.; González, Virginia M.
Kate R. Lorig, DrPH, is Professor (Research).
Philip L. Ritter, PhD, is Programmer Analyst.
Virginia M. González, MPH, is former Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
The authors thank Maria Marin, formerly of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Mirna Sanchez, Stanford University School of Medicine, for their invaluable assistance at many stages of this study; and our many volunteer group leaders.
This program was supported by NINR grant 5R01NOR4438 and by University of California Berkeley Tobacco Related Disease Research Program grant 6LT0107. The Web site for the Stanford Patient Education Research Center is http://patienteducation. stanford.edu. The instruments used in this study are available there.
Corresponding author: Kate R. Lorig, DrPH, 1000 Welch Road, Suite 204, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (e-mail: [email protected]).
