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Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study
Telehealth has become widely available to solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic. While evidence suggests that telehealth serves as an acceptable alternative for most SOT recipients, their satisfaction and its context remain unclear. This study used a mixed methods appr...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.11819 |
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author | Ko, Dami Dierker, Julia Stouff, Rebecca Senier, Laura |
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description | Telehealth has become widely available to solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic. While evidence suggests that telehealth serves as an acceptable alternative for most SOT recipients, their satisfaction and its context remain unclear. This study used a mixed methods approach to investigate the perspectives of SOT recipients (i.e., liver, kidney, and simultaneous liver-kidney) on the benefits and disadvantages of telehealth. A total of 252 adult SOT recipients completed an online survey that quantitatively assessed telehealth experience and satisfaction. Fifteen of them further shared their perspectives by participating in either a focus group or individual interview. Approximately 70% of online survey participants had previously used telehealth for their transplant care. The quantitative data documented that, while recipients were mostly satisfied with telehealth, especially with its effectiveness and convenience, they were less satisfied with the reliability of navigating the telehealth system. The qualitative data further showed that telehealth could be less effective for SOT recipients who perceived themselves as clinically and/or socially vulnerable, needed urgent care, and were concerned about privacy. These findings suggest that the plan for using telehealth to provide transplant care should prioritize personalization, considering unique needs and preferences of each SOT recipient. |
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spelling | pubmed-106136562023-10-31 Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study Ko, Dami Dierker, Julia Stouff, Rebecca Senier, Laura Transpl Int Health Archive Telehealth has become widely available to solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic. While evidence suggests that telehealth serves as an acceptable alternative for most SOT recipients, their satisfaction and its context remain unclear. This study used a mixed methods approach to investigate the perspectives of SOT recipients (i.e., liver, kidney, and simultaneous liver-kidney) on the benefits and disadvantages of telehealth. A total of 252 adult SOT recipients completed an online survey that quantitatively assessed telehealth experience and satisfaction. Fifteen of them further shared their perspectives by participating in either a focus group or individual interview. Approximately 70% of online survey participants had previously used telehealth for their transplant care. The quantitative data documented that, while recipients were mostly satisfied with telehealth, especially with its effectiveness and convenience, they were less satisfied with the reliability of navigating the telehealth system. The qualitative data further showed that telehealth could be less effective for SOT recipients who perceived themselves as clinically and/or socially vulnerable, needed urgent care, and were concerned about privacy. These findings suggest that the plan for using telehealth to provide transplant care should prioritize personalization, considering unique needs and preferences of each SOT recipient. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10613656/ /pubmed/37908673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.11819 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ko, Dierker, Stouff and Senier. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Health Archive Ko, Dami Dierker, Julia Stouff, Rebecca Senier, Laura Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title | Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_full | Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_fullStr | Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_short | Telehealth Experience Among Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Mixed Methods Study |
title_sort | telehealth experience among liver and kidney transplant recipients: a mixed methods study |
topic | Health Archive |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908673 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.11819 |
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