Table 3.
Willingness to receive mobile phone-based health services stratified by pattern of mobile phone use among University of Gondar Hospital patients with diabetes, Gondar, Ethiopia, 2016
| Variable | Willingness to receive mobile phone-based health services (n=329) | |
| Type of mobile phone | ||
| Smart | 8 (12.7) | 55 (87.3) |
| Non-smart | 89 (33.5) | 177 (66.5) |
| Use mobile phone as appointment reminder | ||
| No | 76 (32.5) | 158 (67.5) |
| Yes | 21 (22.3) | 73 (77.7) |
| Use mobile phone as medication reminder | ||
| No | 78 (33.8) | 153 (66.2) |
| Yes | 19 (19.6) | 78 (80.4) |
| Preferred mode of communication | ||
| Voice call | 85 (27.6) | 223 (72.4) |
| Text message | 14 (25.0) | 42 (75.0) |
| 4 (26.7) | 11 (73.3) | |
| How often do you have your mobile phone with you? | ||
| Always | 73 (26.3) | 205 (73.7) |
| Sometimes | 21 (60.0) | 14 (40.0) |
| Seldom | 3 (30.0) | 7 (70.0) |
| Never | 0 (0.0) | 6 (100.0) |
| Mobile phone lost, damaged or stolen in the past | ||
| No | 77 (34.4) | 147 (65.6) |
| Yes | 20 (19.0) | 85 (81.0) |
| Have additional phone number | ||
| No | 81 (28.8) | 200 (71.2) |
| Yes | 16 (33.3) | 32 (66.7) |
| Switch off mobile phone during day time | ||
| No | 89 (30.2) | 206 (69.8) |
| Yes | 8 (23.5) | 26 (76.5) |
| There are times or places where I do not take calls | ||
| No | 76 (33.6) | 150 (66.4) |
| Yes | 21 (20.4) | 82 (79.6) |
| Do not answer unknown calls | ||
| No | 71 (30.7) | 160 (69.3) |
| Yes | 26 (26.5) | 72 (73.5) |
| Lock phone with password | ||
| No | 82 (34.5) | 156 (65.5) |
| Yes | 15 (16.5) | 76 (83.5) |
| Mobile phone used and accessed by others | ||
| No | 79 (35.4) | 144 (64.6) |
| Yes | 18 (17.0) | 88 (83.0) |
| Mobile phone shared with another person | ||
| No | 76 (29.8) | 179 (70.2) |
| Yes | 21 (28.4) | 53 (71.6) |
| Able to read and send text message using mobile | ||
| No | 81 (38.4) | 130 (61.6) |
| Yes | 16 (13.8) | 102 (86.2) |
| Delete text message without reading it | ||
| No | 13 (13.5) | 83 (86.5) |
| Yes | 3 (13.6) | 19 (86.4) |
| Likelihood of text message to be seen by others | ||
| Very high | 2 (20.0) | 8 (80.0) |
| High | 3 (6.4) | 44 (93.6) |
| Lower | 8 (22.2) | 28 (77.8) |
| Very low | 5 (18.5) | 22 (81.5) |
| Use internet on the phone | ||
| No | 83 (33.2) | 167 (66.8) |
| Yes | 14 (17.7) | 65 (82.3) |
| Use social network pages such as Facebook on the phone | ||
| No | 84 (32.3) | 76 (67.7) |
| Yes | 13 (18.8) | 56 (81.2) |
| No | 91 (30.2) | 210 (69.8) |
| Yes | 6 (21.4) | 22 (78.6) |
| No | 88 (28.9) | 217 (71.1) |
| Yes | 9 (37.5) | 15 (62.5) |
| Mobile-based support could be helpful in your adherence | ||
| No | 61 (82.4) | 13 (17.6) |
| Yes | 36 (14.1) | 219 (85.9) |