Table 2.
Percentage of Respondents Willing to Communicate with Doctor by Different Channels*
| Type of Health Information | Channel | Overall Population % (n = 3064) |
Healthy (Excellent, Very Good, or Good) % (n = 508) |
Unhealthy (Fair or Poor) % (n = 2556) |
p value† | Facebook Users % (n = 1776) |
Texting Users % (n = 1965) |
Online Banking System Users % (n = 1414) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health Goals | 3.1 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 0.03 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 1.8 | |
| Health Goals | Texting | 13.3 | 14.3 | 13.2 | 0.52 | 16.2 | 17.8 | 13.9 |
| Health Goals | 48.8 | 41.4 | 51.0 | <0.0001 | 56.1 | 57.6 | 61.0 | |
| Health Goals | Phone | 75.7 | 73.8 | 76.9 | 0.13 | 77.0 | 77.8 | 77.6 |
| Test Results | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.89 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | |
| Test Results | Texting | 13.1 | 13.1 | 13.5 | 0.81 | 16.0 | 18.3 | 14.9 |
| Test Results | 45.4 | 36.7 | 48.1 | <0.0001 | 51.3 | 52.7 | 57.0 | |
| Test Results | Phone | 86.1 | 84.5 | 87.8 | 0.045 | 88.7 | 88.8 | 90.3 |
*Percentage of respondents who answered “agree” or “strongly agree”
†Chi-square analysis comparing “healthy” versus “unhealthy” respondents