Trial reportJournal of global health2018
Comparison of text messaging data collection vs face-to-face interviews for public health surveys: a cluster randomized crossover study of care-seeking for childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea in rural China.
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- Concordance between GPS-based smartphone app for continuous location tracking and mother's recall of care-seeking for child illness in India.Journal of global health · 2018Trial
- Digital tools for recruitment and retention of participants in paediatric clinical research: a scoping review.Trials · 2026Article
- Participatory methods used in the evaluation of medical devices: a comparison of focus groups, interviews, and a survey.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLINICAL DATA COLLECTION THROUGH ONLINE AND PHYSICAL ELECTRONIC QUESTIONNAIRE IN ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS.Acta ortopedica brasileira · 2023Article
- Adaptation of a mobile phone health survey for risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in Colombia: a qualitative study.Global health action · 2020Article
- Assessing the use of cell phones to monitor health and nutrition interventions: Evidence from rural Guatemala.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo compare text messaging and face-to-face interviews to conduct a survey on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia.
methodsCaregivers of young children able to send text messages in Zhao County in rural China were included in this crossover study. Villages (clusters) were randomized into two groups using the ratio 1:1.6 to account for an expected higher drop-out in group 2. In group 1, participants first completed the face-to-face and then text messaging survey; this order was reversed in group 2. We determined data equivalence of 17 questions that were answered by participants who were the same person in both surveys. For the text messaging survey, we assessed the overall and item response rate.
resultsWe included 1014 participants between 16 and 28 March 2013: 371 in 15 villages in group 1 and 643 in 27 villages in group 2. A total of 662 (65.3%) out of 1014 participants responded (first text message question) and a significantly higher proportion who did not respond were from rural areas (
conclusionsThis study shows that text messaging data collection produces data similar to data from face-to-face interviews in a middle-income setting, but the response rate was insufficient for use in public health surveys. Improving the response rate is important, because text message surveys could be of greater value in rural remote areas due to the cost-saving potential.
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