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Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings
Telepractice facilitates services in exceptional settings and situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is certainly such a situation. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) needed to adopt new approaches to their professional functioning. The aim of the paper is t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520098 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2020.6325 |
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author | Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač Matić, Ana Dokoza, Katarina Pavičić |
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description | Telepractice facilitates services in exceptional settings and situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is certainly such a situation. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) needed to adopt new approaches to their professional functioning. The aim of the paper is to examine SLP professionals' perceptions and application of telepractice in SLP settings in Croatia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two hundred and fifty-five SLPs completed an online survey. The results demonstrated that most SLPs had provided direct online therapy, mainly those employed in health care and private practice. The chief reasons for clients' refusal of therapy delivered via telepractice included the lack of equipment, insufficient independence, and doubts on the effectiveness of telepractice. Although only 3% of SLPs had acquired some formal knowledge of telepractice before the pandemic, over 70% expressed satisfaction with telepractice because it allowed them to provide undisturbed clinical services in an exceptional situation. |
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spelling | pubmed-77576532021-01-28 Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač Matić, Ana Dokoza, Katarina Pavičić Int J Telerehabil Clinical Practice-COVID 19 Telepractice facilitates services in exceptional settings and situations. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is certainly such a situation. Due to pandemic-related restrictions, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) needed to adopt new approaches to their professional functioning. The aim of the paper is to examine SLP professionals' perceptions and application of telepractice in SLP settings in Croatia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two hundred and fifty-five SLPs completed an online survey. The results demonstrated that most SLPs had provided direct online therapy, mainly those employed in health care and private practice. The chief reasons for clients' refusal of therapy delivered via telepractice included the lack of equipment, insufficient independence, and doubts on the effectiveness of telepractice. Although only 3% of SLPs had acquired some formal knowledge of telepractice before the pandemic, over 70% expressed satisfaction with telepractice because it allowed them to provide undisturbed clinical services in an exceptional situation. University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7757653/ /pubmed/33520098 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2020.6325 Text en Copyright © 2020 Jelena Kuva? Kraljevi?, Ana Mati?, Katarina Pavi?i? Dokoza This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Clinical Practice-COVID 19 Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač Matić, Ana Dokoza, Katarina Pavičić Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title | Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title_full | Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title_fullStr | Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title_full_unstemmed | Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title_short | Telepractice as a Reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis: Insights from Croatian SLP Settings |
title_sort | telepractice as a reaction to the covid-19 crisis: insights from croatian slp settings |
topic | Clinical Practice-COVID 19 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520098 http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2020.6325 |
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