TY - JOUR
T1 - Text messaging as a community-based survey tool
T2 - A pilot study
AU - Chang, Tammy
AU - Gossa, Weyinshet
AU - Sharp, Adam
AU - Rowe, Zachary
AU - Kohatsu, Lauren
AU - Cobb, Enesha M.
AU - Heisler, Michele
N1 - Funding Information:
Tammy Chang, Adam Sharp, and Enesha Cobb were supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. This work was funded by a grant from the Detroit Urban Research Center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (grant #-1RC4MD005694-01). This project was also supported by grant P30DK092926 (MCDTR) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Chang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
PY - 2014/9/8
Y1 - 2014/9/8
N2 - Results: In our study sample (n = 20), 90% of participants were female, and 100% were African American, with a median age of 30.7 years. Participants responded to 72% (1092/1512) of all multiple choice questions sent by text message and 76% (55/72) of the questions requiring responses on Likert-like scales. Content of responses on the paper and text message surveys did not differ. All participants reported in the focus group that they preferred text message surveys over other survey modalities they have used in the past (paper, phone, internet, in-person) due to ease and convenience.Conclusion: Text messaging is not only acceptable and feasible but is the preferred method of collecting real-time survey data in a low-income urban African-American community.Background: It is not known whether using text messaging to administer real-time survey questions is feasible and acceptable among low-income, urban African American adults.Methods. We used a mixed methods approach including paper surveys, surveys administered by text message, and a focus group. Survey questions that included multiple choice, Likert-like scales, and open ended questions were administered by paper and sent via text message daily during varied times of day for six weeks.
AB - Results: In our study sample (n = 20), 90% of participants were female, and 100% were African American, with a median age of 30.7 years. Participants responded to 72% (1092/1512) of all multiple choice questions sent by text message and 76% (55/72) of the questions requiring responses on Likert-like scales. Content of responses on the paper and text message surveys did not differ. All participants reported in the focus group that they preferred text message surveys over other survey modalities they have used in the past (paper, phone, internet, in-person) due to ease and convenience.Conclusion: Text messaging is not only acceptable and feasible but is the preferred method of collecting real-time survey data in a low-income urban African-American community.Background: It is not known whether using text messaging to administer real-time survey questions is feasible and acceptable among low-income, urban African American adults.Methods. We used a mixed methods approach including paper surveys, surveys administered by text message, and a focus group. Survey questions that included multiple choice, Likert-like scales, and open ended questions were administered by paper and sent via text message daily during varied times of day for six weeks.
KW - Community assessment
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Low-income community
KW - Pilot study
KW - Survey
KW - Text message
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U2 - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-936
DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-14-936
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25201051
AN - SCOPUS:84907915037
SN - 1471-2458
VL - 14
JO - BMC Public Health
JF - BMC Public Health
IS - 1
M1 - 936
ER -