Participants’ preferred option | All participants agreeing to follow-up n (%) | Participants, according to language group, n (%) | P value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arabic speakers | English speakers | Hindi speakers | Urdu speakers | |||
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
Contact mode for follow-up reminders (N) | 208 | 40 | 65 | 40 | 63 | <0.001 |
Phone call | 144 (69) | 24 (60) | 34 (52) | 25 (63) | 61 (97) | |
40 (19) | 9 (23) | 20 (31) | 11 (28) | 0 | ||
Phone call & e-mail | 12 (6) | 2 (5) | 8 (12) | 1 (3) | 1 (2) | |
SMS text | 4 (2) | 4 (10) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Phone call & SMS text | 3 (1) | 1 (3) | 2 (3) | 0 | 0 | |
None | 5 (2) | 0 | 1 (2) | 3 (8) b | 1 (2) c | |
Provision of mailing addressf (N) | 144 | 26 | 52 | 19 | 47 | 0.011 |
Given at baseline | 126 (88) | 24 (92) | 49 (94) | 18 (95) | 35 (74) | |
Asked RA to call later | 17 d (12) | 2 (8) | 2 (4) | 1 (5) | 12 (26) | |
Agreed to send later via e-mail | 1e (1) | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 |