Telehealth Acceptance Among Appalachian Respondents During COVID-19: A Secondary Data Analysis.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between telehealth use, telehealth satisfaction, and chronic medical conditions among residents living in Appalachian and non-Appalachian communities. Sample: A COVID-19 public health survey was distributed via social media and health...
| Publicado en: | Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 43 - 66 |
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Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Healthcare
2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=160721480&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 160721480 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15393399 1CZA jtl: Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care issn: 15393399 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2022 vid: 22 iid: 2 pid: 24740 pub: Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Healthcare place: Chicago, Illinois artinfo: ui: 160721480 160721480 160721480 10.14574/ojrnhc.v22i2.715 160721480 ppf: 43 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Telehealth Acceptance Among Appalachian Respondents During COVID-19: A Secondary Data Analysis. aug: au: Hood-Wells, Victoria Weierbach, Florence M. Wahlquist, Amy E. Keener, Janet Ahuja, Manik Mamudu, Hadii affil: Instructor, East Tennessee State University, College of Nursing sug: subj: Telehealth Utilization Appalachian Region COVID-19 Pandemic Geographic Factors Attitude to Medical Treatment Patient Satisfaction Chronic Disease Community Living Secondary Analysis Public Health Consent Surveys Descriptive Statistics Chi Square Test T-Tests Outcome Assessment Urban Areas Telecommunications Disease Management Rural Areas Age Factors Educational Status Human Male Female Adult Middle Age Aged Sample Size Health Services Accessibility Social Determinants of Health Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Male Female ab: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between telehealth use, telehealth satisfaction, and chronic medical conditions among residents living in Appalachian and non-Appalachian communities. Sample: A COVID-19 public health survey was distributed via social media and healthcare clinics in the tri-state region of central Appalachia. Survey responses were limited to adults aged ≥18 years who consented to participate in the survey that self-identified as an individual with one or more chronic medical conditions (n=195). Method: Simple descriptive statistics including frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations (SDs) were calculated for variables of interest both overall and by subgroups of interest. Chi-squared tests were used to compare categorical outcomes between groups of interest, while two-sample t-tests were used for continuous outcomes. Significance for all tests was determined using an α level of 0.05. Findings: There is no statistically significant relationship between respondents with regard to using telehealth services, satisfaction rates related to telehealth use, or reasons for electing not to use telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there was a trending statistical relationship between county status and the use of telehealth services in Appalachia with those counties doing economically better being more likely to use telehealth services as compared to those fairing less well (p=0.053). Findings also suggest that people living in urban areas of Appalachia were more likely to be satisfied using telehealth services than those living in non-urban areas of Appalachia (p=0.01). Conclusions: Research is still limited as to how the expansion of broadband capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic has benefited those residing in Appalachia in terms of managing chronic health conditions. Future research should focus on expanding participation among Appalachian respondents looking for specific differences related to location within Appalachia, age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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