Table 6.
Respondents’ attitudes to and perception of mobile phones for healthcare
| Variable | Responses | Level of Students | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |||
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | p-value | ||
| Effectiveness of using mobile phone for accessing healthcare | Very Effective | 55 (48.2) | 32 (50) | 34 (34) | 22 (47.8) | 143 (44.1) | |
| Effective | 59 (51.7) | 32 (50) | 64 (64) | 23 (50) | 178 (54.9) | ||
| Not Effective | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (2) | 1 (2.2) | 3 (0.9) | 0.159 | |
| Using mobile phone to access healthcare offers greater security | Strongly Agree | 38 (17) | 26 (18) | 32 (14.6) | 14 (14.4) | 110 (16.1) | |
| Agree | 102 (45.5) | 54 (37.5) | 80 (36.5) | 37 (38.1) | 273 (39.9) | ||
| Not sure | 70 (31.2) | 40 (27.8) | 79 (36.1) | 36 (37.1) | 225 (32.9) | 0.164 | |
| Disagree | 11 (4.9) | 20 (13.9) | 21 (9.6) | 7 (7.2) | 59 (8.6) | ||
| Strongly Disagree | 3 (1.3) | 4 (2.8) | 7 (3.2) | 3 (3.1) | 17 (2.5) | ||
| Easy to share mobile-phone-based medical information | Strongly Agree | 48 (21.4) | 42 (29.2) | 54 (24.7) | 28 (28.9) | 172 (25.1) | |
| Agree | 111 (49.5) | 67 (46.5) | 95 (43.4) | 45 (46.4) | 318 (46.5) | 0.253 | |
| Not sure | 58 (25.9) | 30 (20.8) | 53 (24.2) | 21 (21.6) | 162 (23.7) | ||
| Disagree | 7 (3.1) | 5 (3.5) | 17 (7.8) | 3 (3.1) | 32 (4.7) | ||
| Using mobile phone to access healthcare is convenient | Strongly Agree | 56 (25) | 26 (18.1) | 45 (20.5) | 18 (18.6) | 145 (21.2) | |
| Agree | 97 (43.3) | 72 (50) | 88 (40.2) | 44 (45.4) | 301 (44) | ||
| Not sure | 53 (23.7) | 28 (19.4) | 57 (26) | 24 (24.7) | 162 (23.7) | 0.045* | |
| Disagree | 10 (4.5) | 13 (9) | 28 (12.8) | 7 (7.2) | 58 (8.5) | ||
| Strongly Disagree | 8 (3.6) | 5 (3.5) | 1 (0.5) | 4 (4.1) | 18 (2.6) | ||
*p < 0.05