Benefits and Limitations of Text Messages to Stimulate Higher Learning Among Community Providers: Participants' Views of an mHealth Intervention to Support Continuing Medical Education in Vietnam

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TABLE. Background Characteristics of mCME Participants, Thái Nguyên, Vietnam, December 2015

	IDIs (N=15)	FGDs (N=55)	Total (N=70)
Gender, No. (%)
Female	8 (53.3)	27 (49.1)	35 (50.0)
Male	7 (46.7)	28 (50.9)	35 (50.0)
Age, mean (SD), years	38.6 (10.5)	40.8 (11.2)	40.3 (11.0)
Study arm, No. (%)
Group 2: medical facts	4 (26.7)	30 (54.6)	34 (49.3)
Group 3: medical questions	11 (73.3)	25 (45.4)	36 (50.7)
Response rate during study,^a No. (%)
High	4 (26.7)	29 (52.7)	33 (47.1)
Medium	7 (46.6)	0 (0.0)	7 (10.0)
Low	4 (26.7)	26 (47.3)	30 (42.9)
Practice setting, No. (%)
Rural	12 (80.0)	45 (81.8)	57 (81.4)
Town	2 (13.3)	8 (14.6)	10 (14.3)
City	1 (6.7)	2 (3.6)	3 (4.3)
Medical specialty, No. (%)
General medicine	8 (53.3)	28 (50.9)	36 (51.4)
Obstetrics and pediatrics	3 (20.0)	11 (20.0)	14 (20.0)
Traditional medicine	3 (20.0)	12 (21.8)	15 (21.4)
Preventative medicine	1 (6.7)	4 (7.3)	5 (7.2)
Years in health sector, mean (SD)	2.7 (0.4)	2.9 (0.5)	2.9 (0.5)

Abbreviations: FGD, focus group discussion; IDI, in-depth interview; mCME, mobile continuing medical education; SD, standard deviation.
↵a High response rate refers to those in the 90th and 75th percentiles for women and men, respectively; medium refers to those between the 10th and 90th percentile for women and between the 25th and 75th percentile for men; low refers to those in the 10th and 25th percentiles for women and men, respectively.