BACKGROUND Non-coverage of households without a landline telephone is a major concern of telephone survey researchers. Sampling mobile telephone users in national surveys is vital in order to gain access to the growing proportion of households that use mobile telephones extensively or exclusively. The complex logistics of conducting surveys with mobile telephones have been discussed in the lite...

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: Short Message Service (SMS) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and Short Message Service ...

BACKGROUND Emerging communication technologies have had an impact on population-based telephone surveys worldwide. Our objective was to examine the potential biases of health estimates in South Australia, a state of Australia, obtained via current landline telephone survey methodologies and to report on the impact of mobile-only household on household surveys. METHODS Data from an annual mult...

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network [1]. Nowadays, mobile phone handhelds are everywhere and are used for various applications. Convergence of media provides a great opportunity for mobile users. Yet, there has been a growing rate of challenges acco...

objective: this study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: short message service (sms) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (hba1c) in type 2 diabetes. material and methods: this semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and short message service (n...

BACKGROUND In the last decade mobile telephone use has become more widespread among children. Concerns expressed about possible health risks have led to epidemiological studies investigating adverse health outcomes associated with mobile telephone use. Most epidemiological studies have relied on self reported questionnaire responses to determine individual exposure. We sought to validate the ac...

The development of mobile telephone communication technology and its availability on a worldwide scale has been widely recognised as a force for good. There have been, however, concerns about the possible harmful effects of prolonged exposure to this technology. Two articles in this issue investigate possible harmful effects of mobile telephone use. Seckin and colleagues investigate the possibl...