Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of participants, stratified by whether the short message service was received by the participant.
| Characteristica | SMSb text message received by the participant (n=72) | SMS text message not received by the participant (n=35) | P valuec | ||||
| Female, n (%) | 41 (57) | 20 (57) | .98 | ||||
| Age, n (%) | .57 | ||||||
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5-14 years | 24 (33) | 12 (34) |
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15-21 years | 14 (19) | 4 (11) |
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>21 years | 34 (47) | 19 (54) |
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| Tuberculosis symptoms present, n (%) | 3 (4) | 4 (11) | .15 | ||||
| Language of SMS, n (%) | .59 | ||||||
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English | 39 (54) | 17 (49) |
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Luganda | 33 (46) | 18 (51) |
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| Phone owner, n (%) | 43 (60) | 19 (54) | .59 | ||||
aFor 107 participants with definitive SMS text message receipt status; 87 participants were excluded because SMS text message was not sent and 12 were unreachable for phone survey.
bSMS: short message service.
cChi-square tests of significance used unless otherwise noted.