Table 2.
Responses to quantitative acceptability questions on intervention helpfulness among n = 36 participants in the EMERGE feasibility randomized clinical trial by group and total
| Acceptability question | Study Group | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental | Comparison | ||
| Number of enrolled participants who were randomized | 19 | 19 | 38 |
| Number of randomized participants who completed a post-intervention assessment of acceptability | 17 | 19 | 36 |
| Extent of liking the interventiona | |||
| Liked a lot | 100% | 84% | 92% |
| Somewhat liked | 0 | 11% | 6% |
| Did not like | 0 | 5% | 3% |
| Helpfulness in improving income-earning ability | |||
| Very helpful | 53% | 47% | 50% |
| Somewhat helpful | 47% | 37% | 42% |
| Not helpful | 0 | 16% | 8% |
| Helpfulness in improving ability to prevent HIV | |||
| Very helpful | 82% | 74% | 78% |
| Somewhat helpful | 12% | 16% | 14% |
| Not helpful | 6% | 11% | 8% |
| Likelihood of recommending intervention to a friend | |||
| Very likely | 100% | 84% | 92% |
| Somewhat likely | 0 | 16% | 8% |
| Not likely | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Applied to any of interventions’ texted job announcements | |||
| Yes | 24% | 47% | 36% |
| No | 76% | 53% | 64% |
| Received any interventions’ texted jobs after applyingb | |||
| Yes | 0 | 22% | 15% |
| No | 0 | 78% | 85% |
| Preference for future number of text messages received | |||
| Equal | 71% | 53% | 61% |
| More | 12% | 21% | 17% |
| Fewer | 18% | 26% | 22% |
| Extent of liking weekly text message survey | |||
| Liked a lot | 35% | 47% | 42% |
| Somewhat liked | 59% | 47% | 53% |
| Did not like | 6% | 5% | 6% |
| Ease of responding to weekly text message survey | |||
| Very easy | 82% | 84% | 83% |
| Somewhat easy | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Not easy | 6% | 5% | 6% |
[a] Refers to job announcements only for comparison intervention and job announcement plus microenterprise activities for experimental intervention; [b] Denominator includes only participants who applied to one or more texted job announcements