. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 29.

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 5.

Acceptability of mobile phones personal-health communications for participants in the urban, community-based study.

Characteristic	Urban
	Household Contacts
n (%)^*	(n=145)
Willing to receive via SMS
Laboratory test result	144 (99)
New request to come to clinic	145 (100)
Reminder to come to clinic	145 (100)
Reminder to take medicine	145 (100)
Willing to receive health information by voice call
Laboratory test result	138 (96)^¶
New request to come to clinic	139 (96)
Reminder to come to clinic	138 (96)^¶
Reminder to take medicine	139 (96)
Number of SIM cards preferred for health-related SMS^**
Prefer to receive SMS on one SIM card	30 (79)
Prefer to receive SMS on multiple SIM cards	8 (21)
Number of SIM cards preferred for health voice call^**
Prefer not to receive voice calls	3 (8)
Prefer to receive calls on one SIM card	28 (74)
Prefer to receive calls on multiple SIM cards	7 (19)
Preferred type of health message
Simple	65 (45)
Detailed	80 (55)

Abbreviations: IQR, Inter-quartile range. SIM, Subscriber Identity Module (an integrated but exchangeable circuit inserted into a mobile handset to connect and identify it to a telephone network). SMS, short messaging services (also known as text messaging).

Unless otherwise specified.

^¶

Missing for 1 respondent.

^**

For those with >1 SIM (n=38)