Table 4: Percentage of patients remembering appointment date via different methods
| Frequency | Valid percent | p-value | |||||
| Memory | 153 | 52.0 | |||||
| Writing it down in a diary | 73 | 24.8 | 0.024 | ||||
| Keeping a reminder in the phone | 58 | 19.7 | |||||
| Other | 10 | 3.4 |
52% of the people who remembered appointment via memory missed the maximum no. of appointments; significant at p < 0.05.