Patient Telemedicine Perceptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic Within a Multi-State Medical Institution: Qualitative Study
JMIR Formative Research
; 6(5), 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1871737
ABSTRACT
Background:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, to prevent the spread of the virus, federal regulatory barriers around telemedicine were lifted, and health care institutions encouraged patients to use telemedicine, including video appointments. Many patients, however, still chose face-2-face (f2f) appointments for nonemergent clinical care.Objective:
We explored patients’ personal and environmental barriers to the use of video appointments from April 2020 to December 2020.Methods:
We conducted qualitative telephone interviews of Mayo Clinic patients who attended f2f appointments at the Mayo Clinic from April 2020 to December 2020 but did not utilize Mayo Clinic video appointment services during that time frame.Results:
We found that, although most patients were concerned about preventing COVID-19 transmission, they trusted Mayo Clinic to keep them safe when attending f2f appointments. Many expressed that a video appointment made it difficult to establish rapport with their providers. Other common barriers to video appointments were perceived therapeutic benefits of f2f appointments, low digital literacy, and concerns about privacy and security.Conclusions:
Our study provides an in-depth investigation into barriers to engaging in video appointments for nonemergent clinical care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings corroborate many barriers prevalent in the prepandemic literature and suggest that rapport barriers need to be analyzed and problem-solved at a granular level.
Medical Sciences; COVID-19; telehealth; video appointment; telemedicine; qualitative; pandemic; outpatient; clinical care; virtual health; patient perspective; healthcare; clinical practice; Reimbursement; Health care access; Patients; Socioeconomic factors; Psychiatry; Perceptions; Internet access; Pandemics; Social networks; Primary care; Web portals; Family income; Coronaviruses; Interviews; United States--US; Florida; Arizona
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Databases of international organizations
Database:
ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Language:
English
Journal:
JMIR Formative Research
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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