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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2021 Apr 1;104(11):2772–2784. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.03.036

Table 3.

Phone literacy & current phone usage results (potential end-users).

Phone literacy

Yes No No answer
1) Do you own a cellphone? [If you do not own a phone, proceed to the next sheet]. 100% 0%
2) Is your phone a smartphone (allows you to use the internet, install applications)? 100% 0%
3) What model/make is your phone (iPhone, Samsung, LG, etc.)? 55% iPhone; 44% Android device
4) Do you share the phone with another person? 0% 100%
5) With whom do you share your phone? 100%
6) Is your phone accessible (you can respond to texts/calls) to you for most of the day (> 75%)? 100% 0%
Current phone usage Do you use your phone to…
a… send text messages? 100% 0%
b… receive text messages? 100 0
c… make calls? 100 0
d… receive calls? 100 0
e…send/receive email? 89 11
f… browse the internet? 100 0
use social media applications like.
g. …Instagram? 44% 55%
h. …Facebook? 67 33
i. …Twitter? 0 100
j. …Health apps (like Weight Watchers, Lose It, Fooducate, etc.)? 33 67
k. …Fitness apps (like Fitbit, MapMyRun, My Fitness Pal, ActiveX, Sworkit, etc.)? 33 67
1. …Mental Health apps (Meditation Studio, Calm, Headspace, Happify, etc.)? 11 89
…. which apps do you use most?
Fitbit n = 1 Games n = 1
Newsfeed n = 1 Mapquest n = 1
Email n = 1 Facebook n = 1
Google Maps n = 1 My Fitness Pal n = 1