Table 3 Participants’ chosen modes for consent procedure and baseline survey for concurrent validity testing by literacy status and language groups
Participants’ preferences (and literacy status) | All baseline respondents | Participants by language group | P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | N = 378 | Arabic | English | Hindi | Urdu |  |
n (%) | N = 92 | N = 95 | N = 92 | N = 99 | ||
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
Chosen mode for informed consent | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | <0.001 |
 Read consent form alone | 228 (60) | 18 (20) | 91 (96) | 57 (62) | 62 (63) |  |
 RA reads aloud | 80 (21) | 11 (12) | 1 (1) | 32 (35) | 36 (36) | 0.004 |
  Low literacy | 74 | 11 | 0 | 29 | 34 |  |
  Literate | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |  |
 Skips reading | 70 (19) | 63 (68) | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | 1 (1) | 0.87 |
  Low literacy | 24 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 |  |
  Literate | 46 | 40 | 3 | 2 | 1 |  |
Chosen mode for baseline survey | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | <0.001 |
  Self-administers | 287 (76) | 62 (67) | 95 (100) | 71 (77) | 59 (60) |  |
  RA reads aloud, fills in responses | 91 (24) | 30 (33) | 0 (0) | 21 (23) | 40 (40) |  |