Patient responses to research recruitment and follow-up surveys: findings from a diverse multicultural health care setting in Qatar

Table 4 Preferred mode for receiving reminders and preference for sharing address with the research team among individuals who agreed to participate in a follow-up survey for reliability testing ^a

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)
E-mail	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 address^f (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	1^e (1)	0	1 (2)	0	0

^a Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100 %. SMS short message service
^b Two participants wanted no reminders. A third participant provided no phone number or e-mail address; although she promised to call before her visit, she did not
^c One participant did not indicate a preference for receiving reminders or providing a postal address. When called for an address, she did not provide one; hence, she was classified with “none.”
^d Nine participants provided their postal addresses, 5 did not, and 3 provided wrong addresses
^e One participant promised to provide her postal address by e-mail. However, after being contacted twice by e-mail, she said that she could not provide it and was out of town
^f Pertains to participants who agreed to follow-up by mail

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