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Table 2 Assigned and actually sent text messages by each risk-sector to the personalised and non-personalised groups

From: The effect of mobile personalised texting versus non-personalised texting on the caries risk of underprivileged adults: a randomised control trial

Number of text messages

Personalised Group

Non-personalised Group

Diet

Bacteria

Susceptibility

Circumstances

Diet

Bacteria

Susceptibility

Circumstances

Assigned messages

 Sum

401

504

264

175

330

330

330

330

 Mean (SD)

7.2 (2.9)

9.0 (3.4)

4.7 (4.2)

3.1 (1.7)

6.0 (0.0)

6.0 (0.0)

6.0 (0.0)

6.0 (0.0)

 Median

7

9

3

3

6

6

6

6

 Range

1–13

3–16

2–18

0–7

6–6

6–6

6–6

6–6

Actually sent messagesa

 Sum

340

422

217

146

287

313

292

294

 Mean (SD)

6.1 (3.0)

7.5 (3.4)

3.9 (3.2)

2.6 (1.6)

5.2 (0.9)

5.7 (0.6)

5.3 (1.1)

5.3 (0.7)

 Median

6

7

3

2.5

5

6

6

5

 Range

0–12

0–14

0–16

0–6

3–6

3–7

2–6

3–6

  1. SD Standard deviation
  2. aDuplicates (or more) were counted as one