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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 14.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry. 2017 Fall;80(3):279–285. doi: 10.1080/00332747.2016.1271162

TABLE 1.

Health Information Communication Preferences of Injured Trauma Survivors (N=121)

Information Source Information about
upcoming appointments
Information about
medication instructions

Prefer this
source
%(n) a
Prefer this as
primary source
%(n) a,b,c
Prefer this
source
%(n) a
Prefer this as
primary source
%(n) a,b,c
Concern with
this source
%(n) a
Phone Call 89.2(107) 44.2(53) 84.3(102) 33.1(40) 15.7(19)
Email 53.3(64) 16.7(20) 51.2(62) 16.5(20) 42.1(51)
Text Message 47.9(58) 10.8(13) 32.2(39) 5.8(7) 40.5(49)
Internet Website 26.4(32) 1.7(2) 32.2(39) 6.6(8) 38.0(46)
Social Networking 16.5(20) 4.2(5) 12.4(15) 1.7(2) 69.4(84)

Postal Mail 74.4(90) 13.3(6)
Card/Brochure 57.0(69) 7.5(9) 70.2(85) 14.9(18)
Provider Visit 20.7(25) 1.7(2) 67.8(82) 18.2(22)
DVD/Video 24.8(30) 0.8(1)

%(n) may not equal 100(121):

a

Patients could express more than one preference.

b

Patients may have preferences even if they do not want to receive information from a specific source.

c

Not all patients responded to all questions.