Wishing to remain responsive to the needs of our constituents, we developed an Exit Survey that is completed by each user prior to leaving a given WWW site. Consequently, we are able to describe the user population, document changes in this regard over time, and solicit user reactions to the existing form and content of these sites. Every state in the US was represented, as well as 17 other countries. Sixty-seven percent of inquiries originated from rural areas. Users were very satisfied with the form and content of the various offerings.
More information is the most common request.
Apart from simply more information, users expressed a keen desire for distant learning opportunities, at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral levels, across the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Interactive courses, CD-ROM based workshops, and videoconferencing were the recommended vehicles. A second major request was for consultation and liaison with clinical, research, program development, and policy experts in Native American health. The third area of interest was bibliographic information access and retrieval. Users repeatedly cited the fugitive nature of publications pertaining to Native American health.