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Use of a Website to Accomplish Health Behavior Change: If You Build It, Will They Come? And Will It Work If They Do?

W. Perry Dickinson, Russell E. Glasgow, Lawrence Fisher, L. Miriam Dickinson, Steven M. Christensen, Paul A. Estabrooks and Benjamin F. Miller
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2013, 26 (2) 168-176; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344
W. Perry Dickinson
From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
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Russell E. Glasgow
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Lawrence Fisher
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L. Miriam Dickinson
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Steven M. Christensen
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Paul A. Estabrooks
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Benjamin F. Miller
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vol. 26 no. 2 168-176
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344
PubMed 
23471930

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1557-2625
Online ISSN 
1558-7118
History 
  • Received for publication December 29, 2011
  • Revision received October 4, 2012
  • Accepted for publication October 23, 2012
  • Published online March 7, 2013.

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© Copyright 2013 by the American Board of Family Medicine.

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  1. W. Perry Dickinson, MD,
  2. Russell E. Glasgow, PhD,
  3. Lawrence Fisher, PhD,
  4. L. Miriam Dickinson, PhD,
  5. Steven M. Christensen,
  6. Paul A. Estabrooks, PhD and
  7. Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD
  1. From the Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora (WPD, LMD, BFM); the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute (REG); the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco (LF); InterVision Media, Eugene, OR (SMC); and the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech (PAE).
  1. Corresponding author: Perry Dickinson, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Family Medicine, Mail Stop F496, Academic Office 1, 12631 East 17th Avenue, Room 3223, Aurora, CO 80045 (E-mail: perry.dickinson{at}ucdenver.edu).
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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Mar 2013, 26 (2) 168-176; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Mar 2013, 26 (2) 168-176; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.02.110344
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