When both the intervention (in this case, mobile phone response) and outcome (adherence to medication) have a strong behavioural component, the act of research participation itself may account for the observed change more than the intended intervention being studied.
In March 2013 we undertook a nationally representative cross-sectional household survey of adult individuals, who provided verbal consent, using computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) landline (response rate = 34%) and mobile phone technologies (response rate = 19%).
4 'Florence' (or 'Flo') is a simple telehealth service that enables a patient to use their mobile phone to submit responses via text messages to a server that is periodically reviewed by their responsible clinician.
The GPS receivers are being added to mobile phones in response to regulations issued by the Federal Communications Commission requiring wireless carriers to provide location information accurate to within 50 to 100 meters, or 450 to 900 feet.
Mobile communication data has enabled a plethora of intriguing studies on social phenomena, such as disease transmission [14], human communications [15], human mobility [16], mobile phone virus outbreak [17], and response to disasters [18].
There are many factors like this that indicate the dynamics of a living city — not just electricity use but water use, mobile phone connections, the response to different kinds of weather, and more.
Mobile phone variables, questionnaire items, response categories, and response classifications are presented in Table 1.
International partners, including NGOs and UN agencies, expressed concern about the introduction of mobile phone technology for Ebola response purposes, citing poor literacy or possible network gaps as challenges.
Coupled with the positive opinions of respondents towards the usability of the mobile phone and the higher response rates, the results lend support to the use of mobile technology to collect data given the advantages of this mode relating to automatic data entry and the increased convenience of flexible completion.
Iran is engaged in a widespread clampdown on broadcast, mobile phone and internet communications in response to the country's contested election results.
