TABLE 3.
Mobile Phone Use Patterns (N = 206)
| Variable | %(n) |
|---|---|
| Mobile phone ownership | 86% (177) |
| Basic cell phone | 20% (42) |
| Smart phone | 66% (135) |
| Features used on mobile phone (n = 206) | |
| Text messaging | 96% (169) |
| Internet | 81% (143) |
| Camera | 79% (139) |
| Video | 64% (114) |
| 61% (107) | |
| Social media | 61% (108) |
| Rate of text messaging (n = 206) | |
| Daily | 77% (137) |
| >1/week | 11% (22) |
| x1/week | 5% (10) |
| x1/month | 2% (5) |
| x1/few months | 3% (7) |
| Never | 1% (24) |
| Sending or receiving text messages (n = 206) | |
| Very much’ or ‘somewhat’ comfortable sending TM | 82% (169) |
| Very much’ or ‘somewhat’ concerned about privacy of TM | 51% (105) |
| Preferred mode of contact TM vs Phone call (n = 206) | |
| TM | 21% (44) |
| Phone call | 39% (81) |
| Either | 39% (81) |
| TM payment plan (n = 206) | |
| Flat fee for unlimited TM | 83% (171) |
| Flat fee for limited TM | 8% (17) |
| Pay-per-TM | 4% (8) |
| Smart phone applications (n = 135) | 65% (135) |
| Entertainment (eg, music, video, youtube) | 45.92% (62) |
| Games (eg, candy crush, casino, chess) | 34.81% (47) |
| Social media (eg, facebook, instagram, twitter) | 25.2% (34) |
| Communication (eg, viber, skype, whatsapp) | 10.37% (14) |
| Maps/GPS (eg, metro map) | 8.15% (11) |
| Financial (eg, banking, tax rabbit, Indeed, paypal) | 6.66% (9) |
| Weather | 5.92% (8) |
| Educational (eg, encyclopedia, lumosity) | 3.7% (5) |
| News (eg, New York Times, CNN, local news) | 3.7% (5) |
| Retail (eg, ebay, food) | 3.7% (5) |
| Lifestyle (eg, tinder, happn) | 2.22% (3) |
| Recovery applications (eg, AA or NA, cleantime counter) | 0.74% (1) |
| Health applications (eg, WebMD) | 0.74% (1) |
| Barriers to phone ownership, mean (SD) | |
| Phones owned in the last year | 3.3 (2.98) |
| Phone numbers in the last year | 2.6 (2.36) |
| Reasons for ≥1 phone(s) or phone number(s) in the last year (n = 158) | |
| Lost | 63% (99) |
| Stolen | 27% (43) |
| Hardware damage | 21% (33) |
| Upgraded phone to a newer model | 11% (17) |
| Sold for money | 7% (11) |
| Cost | 6% (10) |
| Given away (donated to family or friends) | 3% (5) |
| Incarceration or arrest | 2% (3) |
| Phone disconnected or off for more than a few hours in one day (n = 206) | |
| >1/day | 1% (2) |
| Daily | 5% (11) |
| >1/week | 4% (8) |
| x1/week | 10% (21) |
| x1/month | 14% (28) |
| x1/few months | 19% (39) |
| Never | 47% (97) |