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Published in final edited form as: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2018 May 1;22(5):530–536. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.17.0521

Table 4.

Patterns of usage and acceptability of mobile phones among those who own or have access to a phone for participants in the rural, clinic-based study.

Characteristic	Rural
	General Outpatients
n (%)	(n=174)
Ability to receive an SMS message	164 (94)
Able to send an SMS message	121 (70)
Willing to receive any test results via SMS text message	164 (94)
Willing to provide telephone number to health center	173 (99)
Read messages from numbers unknown or not in contact list	142 (82)

Missing response for 23 participants