Table 2.
Willingness to receive the short message service (SMS) text message–based mHealth intervention by patterns of mobile phone use among pregnant women attending antenatal care follow-up at health centers in the Gondar Town Administration, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017 (N=319).
| Mobile phone use patterns | Total, n (%) | Willingness to receive SMS text messages, n (%) | ||
| Yes | No | |||
| Mobile phone type | ||||
| Smart | 120 (37.6) | 101 (84.2) | 19 (15.8) | |
| Standard | 199 (62.4) | 144 (72.4) | 55 (27.6) | |
| Sent an SMS text message via mobile phone before | ||||
| Yes | 229 (71.8) | 184 (80.3) | 45 (19.7) | |
| No | 90 (28.2) | 61 (67.8) | 29 (32.2) | |
| Used mobile phone for health information before | ||||
| Yes | 106 (33.2) | 85 (80.2) | 21 (19.8) | |
| No | 213 (66.8) | 160 (75.1) | 53 (24.9) | |
| Used mobile phone to set alarm for taking medication | ||||
| Yes | 53 (16.6) | 45 (85) | 8 (15) | |
| No | 266 (83.4) | 200 (75.2) | 66 (24.8) | |
| Received SMS text messages from health organization before | ||||
| Yes | 39 (12.2) | 31 (79.5) | 8 (19.5) | |
| No | 280 (87.8) | 214 (76.4) | 66 (23.6) | |
| Consulted health care professionals | ||||
| Yes | 34 (10.7) | 26 (76.5) | 8 (23.5) | |
| No | 285 (89.3) | 219 (77) | 66 (23) | |
| Used the internet to browse health-related data | ||||
| Yes | 26 (8.2) | 20 (77) | 6 (23) | |
| No | 293 (91.9) | 225 (76.8) | 68 (23.8) | |
| Frequency of mobile phone use | ||||
| Always | 286 (89.6) | 229 (80.1) | 57 (19.9) | |
| Sometimes | 33 (10.3) | 16 (48.5) | 17 (51.5) | |
| Changed your subscriber identity module (SIM) card in the last 12 months | ||||
| Yes | 48 (15) | 35 (72.9) | 13 (27.1) | |
| No | 271 (85) | 210 (77.5) | 61 (22.5) | |
| Have an additional SIM card | ||||
| Yes | 22 (6.9) | 20 (90.9) | 2 (9.1) | |
| No | 297 (93.1) | 225 (75.8) | 72 (24.2) | |
| Switch off your mobile phone during daytime | ||||
| Yes | 47 (14.7) | 34 (72.3) | 13 (27.7) | |
| No | 272 (85.3) | 211 (77.6) | 61 (22.4) | |
| There are times or places when calls are not answered | ||||
| Yes | 108 (33.9) | 82 (75.9) | 26 (24.1) | |
| No | 211 (66.1) | 163 (77.5) | 48 (22.7) | |
| There are times, places, or situations when unknown calls are unanswered | ||||
| Yes | 100 (31.3) | 75 (75) | 25 (25) | |
| No | 219 (68.7) | 170 (77.6) | 49 (22.4) | |
| Locked the mobile phone with a password | ||||
| Yes | 164 (51.4) | 132 (80.5) | 32 (19.5) | |
| No | 155 (48.9) | 113 (72.9) | 42 (27.1) | |
| No | 223 (69.9) | 182 (81.6) | 41 (18.4) | |
| Shared the mobile phone with others in the house | ||||
| Yes | 95 (29.8) | 64 (67.4) | 31 (32.4) | |
| No | 224 (70.2) | 181 (80.8) | 43 (19.2) | |
| Can send an SMS text message | ||||
| Yes | 277 (86.8) | 219 (79.1) | 59 (209) | |
| No | 42 (13.2) | 26 (61.9) | 16 (38.1) | |
| Can read an SMS text message | ||||
| Yes | 287 (90) | 226 (78.7) | 61 (21.3) | |
| No | 32 (10) | 19 (59.4) | 13 (40.6) | |
| Deleted an SMS text message without reading | ||||
| Yes | 18 (6.3) | 17 (94.4) | 1 (5.6) | |
| No | 269 (93.7) | 211 (78.4) | 58 (21.6) | |
| Likelihood of an SMS text message to be seen by others | ||||
| Very likely | 26 (8.1) | 17 (65.4) | 9 (34.6) | |
| Likely | 57 (17.9) | 38 (66.7) | 19 (33.3) | |
| Unlikely | 71 (22.3) | 55 (77.5) | 16 (22.3) | |
| Very unlikely | 165 (51.7) | 135 (81.8) | 30 (18.2) | |
| Used the internet via your mobile phone | ||||
| Yes | 151 (47.3) | 124 (82.1) | 27 (17.9) | |
| No | 168 (52.7) | 121 (72) | 47 (28) | |
| Chatted with friends and relatives | ||||
| Yes | 143 (94.7) | 123 (86) | 20 (14) | |
| No | 8 (5.3) | 1 (12.5) | 7 (87.5) | |
| Used the mobile phone to send emails | ||||
| Yes | 88 (58.3) | 77 (87.5) | 11 (12.5) | |
| No | 63 (41.7) | 47 (74.6) | 16 (25.4) | |
| Used the mobile phone to browse information | ||||
| Yes | 46 (30.5) | 39 (84.8) | 7 (15.2) | |
| No | 105 (69.5) | 85 (81) | 20 (19)) | |
| Used the mobile phone for entertainment | ||||
| Yes | 48 (31.8) | 42 (87.5) | 6 (12.5) | |
| No | 103 (68.2) | 82 (79.6) | 21 (20.4) | |