Browsing by Subject "telerehabilitation"

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    Development and Validation of the Tele-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Acceptance Scale
    (Daedalus, 2019) Almojaibel, Abdullah A.; Munk, Niki; Goodfellow, Lynda T.; Fisher, Thomas F.; Miller, Kristine K.; Comer, Amber R.; Bakas, Tamilyn; Justiss, Michael D.; Health Sciences, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
    BACKGROUND: Using telehealth in pulmonary rehabilitation (telerehabilitation) is a new field of health-care practice. To successfully implement a telerehabilitation program, measures of acceptance of this new type of program need to be assessed among potential users. The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure acceptance of using telerehabilitation by health-care practitioners and patients. METHODS: Three objectives were met (a) constructing a modified scale of the technology acceptance model, (b) judging the items for content validity, and (c) judging the scale for face validity. Nine experts agreed to participate and evaluate item relevance to theoretical definitions of domains. To establish face validity, 7 health-care practitioners and 5 patients were interviewed to provide feedback about the scale's clarity and ease of reading. RESULTS: The final items were divided into 2 scales that reflected the health-care practitioner and patient responses. Each scale included 3 subscales: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention. CONCLUSIONS: The 2 scales, each with 3 subscales, exhibited evidence of content validity and face validity. The 17-item telerehabilitation acceptance scale for health-care practitioners and the 13-item telerehabilitation acceptance scale among patients warrant further psychometric testing as valuable measures for pulmonary rehabilitation programs.
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    Providing Therapeutic Materials to Families with Children Participating in Telehealth Services: Caregiver and Therapist Perception of Impact on Telehealth Services
    (2021-04-27) Benich, Jacob; Zeigler, Jayson; Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Human Sciences; Blain, Barb
    Telehealth has been a lesser-known service delivery option for occupational therapy for many years. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has now become mainstream and had even been utilized as a complete replacement for in-person treatment at certain points during the pandemic. The telehealth sessions at the capstone site, a private Pediatric therapy clinic, have been found to be limited by what materials the family has in their home. At the clinic, every therapeutic item one could think of is available for use, but when stuck at home, families must use what they have. This capstone project sought to provide care packages with therapeutic materials to families receiving telehealth to determine if both their own and their therapist’s perception of telehealth changed. A non-standardized survey was utilized for data collection, and slight improvements had been found for the caregiver perception of telehealth, with little change in the therapist perception. Further exploration of results and implications on OT and telehealth are discussed as well.