Benefits of and barriers to telehealth for the informal caregivers of elderly individuals in rural areas: A scoping review.
Introduction: Maintaining care for elderly individuals in rural areas is heavily dependent on support from informal caregivers. Many informal caregivers of the elderly in rural areas feel burdened and urgently require professional support. Interests in telehealth that can provide support irrespectiv...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 442 - 458 |
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| Formato: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=158550849&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 158550849 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10385282 FQO jtl: Australian Journal of Rural Health issn: 10385282 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2022 vid: 30 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 158550849 156439954 158550849 158550849 10.1111/ajr.12869 158550849 ppf: 442 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Benefits of and barriers to telehealth for the informal caregivers of elderly individuals in rural areas: A scoping review. aug: au: Lyu, Miaohua Zhao, Qiheng Yang, Yuhang Hao, Xiaonan Qin, Yuan Li, Kun affil: School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, China sug: subj: Telehealth Quality Improvement Health Services Accessibility Caregiver Support Gerontologic Care Rural Health Services Human Scoping Review Psychological Distress Quality of Health Care Support, Psychosocial China Funding Source Aged CINAHL Database PubMed Psycinfo Access to Information Aged: 65+ years ab: Introduction: Maintaining care for elderly individuals in rural areas is heavily dependent on support from informal caregivers. Many informal caregivers of the elderly in rural areas feel burdened and urgently require professional support. Interests in telehealth that can provide support irrespective of geographical location have been increasing. Objective: To identify the benefits of and barriers in telehealth engagement for rural caregivers to provide evidence for service improvement. Design: A scoping review method was used following PRISMA‐ScR guidelines and Arksey and O'Malley's five‐stage framework. Five databases were searched. The search terms were chosen based on the target intervention (i.e. telehealth), target population (caregivers of elderly individuals) and target context (rural areas). Two authors independently assessed the eligibility of studies and extracted data from eligible studies. Findings: Of 4220 retrieved studies, 19 articles met the inclusion criteria. This study identified four benefits of and two barriers to telehealth for rural caregivers. Four subthemes were identified as the key benefits in using telehealth for caregivers: decrease in psychological distress, increase in care efficiency, increase in social support and increase in access to resources, while inadequate telehealth infrastructures and caregivers' own reasons were the primary barriers in using telehealth for those populations. Conclusions: Telehealth was shown to significantly benefit rural caregivers. Future research can be designed and conducted for overcoming the barriers to telehealth. Additionally, the benefits identified by this review need to be translated from research into practice for rural caregivers' care. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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