Continuity of Care During COVID-19 Lockdown: A Survey on Stakeholders' Experience With Telerehabilitation.
Front Neurol
; 11: 617276, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1058436
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To explore professionals', adult patients', and children's caregivers' perception and satisfaction with telerehabilitation during COVID-19 lockdown.Design:
An observational transversal study on a web-based survey was conducted in order to explore participants' perception and satisfaction of telerehabilitation during COVID-19 lockdown.Setting:
The study was conducted at our Outpatient Neurorehabilitation Service.Subjects:
All rehabilitation professionals, adult patients, and children's caregivers who accepted telerehabilitation were recruited.Interventions:
Participants had to respond to the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-8 and to a purpose-built questionnaire on their perception and satisfaction of the service provided. MainMeasures:
Data were analyzed by qualitative statistics and logistic regression models.Results:
All 144 caregivers, 25 adult patients, and 50 professionals reported a medium-high level of perception and a high level of satisfaction. Results showed a correlation among caregivers of children aged 0-3 and feeling overwhelmed with remote care (OR = 3.27), a low perception of telerehabilitation for enhancing goals (OR = 6.51), and a high perception of feeling helped in organizing daily activity (OR = 2.96). For caregivers of children aged over 6 years, changes in the therapy plan were related to a low perception of feeling in line with the in-person therapy (OR = 2.61 and OR = 9.61) and a low satisfaction (OR = 5.54 and OR = 4.97). Changes in therapy were related to concern (OR = 4.20). Caregivers under 40 and professionals showed a high probability to perceive telerehabilitation as supportive (OR = 2.27 and OR = 5.68). Level of experience with remote media was shown to influence perception and satisfaction.Interpretation:
Telerehabilitation can be a useful practice both during a health emergency and in addition to in-presence therapy.
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Observational study
/
Prognostic study
/
Qualitative research
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Neurol
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Fneur.2020.617276
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS