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. 2013 Aug 20;2(2):e33. doi: 10.2196/resprot.2621

Table 3.

Electronic access and reported technical difficulties.

Baseline Overall, n=367
n (%)
Intervention, n=182
n (%)
Control, n=185
n (%)
Personal email access 353 (96.2) 176 (96.7) 177 (95.7)
Smart phone access 73 (19.9) 41 (22.5) 32 (17.3)
Cell phone access 177 (48.2) 98 (53.8) 79 (42.7)
Receive and send text messages 127 (34.6) 141 (38.5) 57 (30.8)
Check email multiple times per day 148 (40.3) 79 (43.4) 69 (37.3)
Participants who completed follow-up 324 (88.3) 159 (87.4) 165 (89.2)
Problems accessing results on website 25 (7.7) 9 (5.7) 16 (9.7)
Logon difficulties to website 37 (11.4) 17 (10.7) 20 (12.1)
Did not receive email with instruction on logon 11 (3.4) 4 (2.5) 7 (4.2)
Instructions were unclear 10 (3.1) 4 (2.5) 6 (3.6)
MyOSCAR-SAHARA website was difficult to use 13 (4.0) 4 (2.5) 9 (5.5)
Total problems with MyOSCAR-SAHARA website 74 (22.8) 31 (19.5) 43 (26.1)