Text messaging as a community-based survey tool: a pilot study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Response rate and response time of text survey questions n = 18

	Questions sent	Responses	Response rate	With free text	Median time to response (minutes)	Range (minutes)
Medical scenarios	1512	1092	72.2%	94.9%	5	0-905
Business Hours	671	483	72.0%	92.1%	6	0-747
Evening/Weekend Hours	841	609	72.4%	96.7%	4	0-905
Health literacy/numeracy questions	72	55	76.4%

Business Hours: Text questions sent between 8 am-3 pm.
Evening/Weekend Hours: Text questions sent between 4 pm-11 pm.
With free text =% of answered multiple choice text message survey question where participants also included a free text response.

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