Survey question | n (%) |
---|---|
Sex | |
Male | 16 (61) |
Female | 10 (38) |
Advantages to text messaging | |
Time management | 13 (50) |
Convenient | 4 (15) |
Cost-effective | 4 (15) |
None | 3 (11) |
Effective | 1 (4) |
Avoid telephone ‘ping pong’ (where GP phones and leaves a message, patient returns call but GP cannot answer, repeatedly) | 1 (4) |
Disadvantages to text messaging | |
Confidentiality | 18 (69) |
Text messaging conversation might follow | 2 (8) |
Consent | 2 (8) |
Increased patient anxiety | 1 (4) |
Changing phone numbers | 1 (4) |
Unnecessary | 1 (4) |
Lack of feedback | 1 (4) |
If an IT provider set it up, would you use text messaging? | |
Yes | 12 (46) |
No | 14 (54) |
If ICGP/MPS/Medisec endorsed text messaging, would you use text messaging? | |
Yes | 14 (54) |
No | 11 (42) |
Maybe | 1 (4) |
ICGP = Irish College of General Practitioners. MPS = Medical Protection Society.