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Table 6 Acceptability of mHealth Interventions

From: Clinical and patient-centered implementation outcomes of mHealth interventions for type 2 diabetes in low-and-middle income countries: a systematic review

Study

MHealth intervention

Point and method of measurement of satisfaction

Proportion of respondents

General perceived satisfaction rate

Messages/ content was understandable

Willingness to continue using the mHealth intervention

Haddad et al [52]

Text messaging

End of intervention:

Questionnaire survey

100%

100%

90.5%

100%

Huo et al. [53]

Text Messaging

Last follow-up visit

acceptability and utility survey

239 (96.8%)

NR

97.1%

93.7%

Li et al. [57]

Mobile app

Wearable Activity Trackers

End of intervention: 5-point Likert scale

Acceptability questionnaire,

100%

Intervention: 45.2%

Control: 40.4%

  

Limaye et al. [58]

Text Messaging, email, Website, Facebook®

End of intervention: Text messages and Facebook® or website

NR

NR

NR

98.0%

Owolabi et al. [61]

Text Messaging

Post-intervention:

Questionnaire Survey

98 (90.7%) a

98%

NR

95.9%

Patnaik et al. [62]

Mobile app

Post-intervention :

Mobile Questionnaire Survey

 

Diet satisfaction c: 3.21 ± 1.02

Treatment satisfactiond : 13.09 ± 1.01

  

Pfammater et al. [65]

Text Messaging

End of intervention:

Telephone survey

Intervention: 611 (62.2%) Control: 632 (67.0%)

NR

NR

NR

Sun et al. [70]

Mobile app

End of intervention

Likert scale

100%

90% (6.3/7) b

NR

NR

Zhou et al. [73]

Mobile app

Pre- and post-intervention

App-based question

NR

84%

NR

NR

  1. aAssessment of users’ satisfaction only included participants in the intervention arm; b Rating based on a 7-scale Likert score; c Total score: 5; d Total Score: 15