Use and level of interest in receiving information and use and level of interest in directing questions to a physician through information and communication technology (ICT)
| Young | Adult | Old adult | Chi-squared | Total | |
| p-value | |||||
| Patients | 95 | 217 | 391 | 673 | |
| Having | |||||
| Internet access | 94.3% | 92.6% | 61.4% | <0.001 | 76.6% |
| A cell phone | 94.4% | 97.3% | 86.4% | <0.001 | 91.2% |
| A smartphone | 69% | 78.6% | 44.3% | <0.001 | 59.5% |
| Use of ICT type (at least once a week) | |||||
| SMS | 61.2% | 79.7% | 65.8% | 0.001 | 69.9% |
| 60% | 72.2% | 36.5% | <0.001 | 51.4% | |
| 30.6% | 30.9% | 9.2% | <0.001 | 19.9% | |
| YouTube | 44.7% | 56.3% | 16.3% | <0.001 | 33.4% |
| 46.3% | 67.5% | 36.1% | <0.001 | 47.9% | |
| Internet | 64.6% | 74.6% | 44.4% | <0.001 | 56.8% |
| 18.8% | 25% | 5.5% | <0.001 | 14.1% | |
| Skype | 25.4% | 30.1% | 8% | <0.001 | 18.1% |
| Interest in receiving information through ICT type (high/some interest) | |||||
| SMS | 51.2% | 58.2% | 60.5% | 0.322 | 58.5% |
| 43% | 47.3% | 19.6% | <0.001 | 32% | |
| 31.3% | 19.4% | 2.4% | <0.001 | 11.6% | |
| 24.2% | 9.8% | 1.8% | <0.001 | 7.6% | |
| 41% | 59.3% | 34.3% | <0.001 | 43.6% | |
| 72.3% | 76.8% | 48.1% | <0.001 | 61.5% | |
| Interest in asking physician through ICT type (high/some interest) | |||||
| SMS | 51.9% | 61.9% | 60.9% | 0.266 | 60% |
| 46.2% | 41.3% | 19.6% | <0.001 | 30.4% | |
| 18.5% | 17% | 2.7% | <0.001 | 9.3% | |
| 20% | 10.8% | 2.2% | <0.001 | 7.5% | |
| 37.7% | 56.4% | 33.1% | <0.001 | 41.5% | |
| 69.5% | 74.9% | 44.2% | <0.001 | 58.4% | |
Differences in values between the three age groups are significant at the 0.05 significance level. SMS: short message service.