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Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used

Physical activity monitoring with wearable technology has the potential to support stroke rehabilitation. Little is known about how physical therapists use and value the use of wearable activity monitors. This cross-sectional study explores the use, perspectives, and barriers to wearable activity mo...

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Autores principales: Braakhuis, Hanneke E. M., Bussmann, Johannes B. J., Ribbers, Gerard M., Berger, Monique A. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204824
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21124066
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author Braakhuis, Hanneke E. M.
Bussmann, Johannes B. J.
Ribbers, Gerard M.
Berger, Monique A. M.
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description Physical activity monitoring with wearable technology has the potential to support stroke rehabilitation. Little is known about how physical therapists use and value the use of wearable activity monitors. This cross-sectional study explores the use, perspectives, and barriers to wearable activity monitoring in day-to-day stroke care routines amongst physical therapists. Over 300 physical therapists in primary and geriatric care and rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands were invited to fill in an online survey that was developed based on previous studies and interviews with experts. In total, 103 complete surveys were analyzed. Out of the 103 surveys, 27% of the respondents were already using activity monitoring. Of the suggested treatment purposes of activity monitoring, 86% were perceived as useful by more than 55% of the therapists. The most recognized barriers to clinical implementation were lack of skills and knowledge of patients (65%) and not knowing what brand and type of monitor to choose (54%). Of the non-users, 79% were willing to use it in the future. In conclusion, although the concept of remote activity monitoring was perceived as useful, it was not widely adopted by physical therapists involved in stroke care. To date, skills, beliefs, and attitudes of individual therapists determine the current use of wearable technology.
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spelling pubmed-82315292021-06-26 Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used Braakhuis, Hanneke E. M. Bussmann, Johannes B. J. Ribbers, Gerard M. Berger, Monique A. M. Sensors (Basel) Communication Physical activity monitoring with wearable technology has the potential to support stroke rehabilitation. Little is known about how physical therapists use and value the use of wearable activity monitors. This cross-sectional study explores the use, perspectives, and barriers to wearable activity monitoring in day-to-day stroke care routines amongst physical therapists. Over 300 physical therapists in primary and geriatric care and rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands were invited to fill in an online survey that was developed based on previous studies and interviews with experts. In total, 103 complete surveys were analyzed. Out of the 103 surveys, 27% of the respondents were already using activity monitoring. Of the suggested treatment purposes of activity monitoring, 86% were perceived as useful by more than 55% of the therapists. The most recognized barriers to clinical implementation were lack of skills and knowledge of patients (65%) and not knowing what brand and type of monitor to choose (54%). Of the non-users, 79% were willing to use it in the future. In conclusion, although the concept of remote activity monitoring was perceived as useful, it was not widely adopted by physical therapists involved in stroke care. To date, skills, beliefs, and attitudes of individual therapists determine the current use of wearable technology. MDPI 2021-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8231529/ /pubmed/34204824 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21124066 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title_full Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title_fullStr Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title_full_unstemmed Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title_short Wearable Activity Monitoring in Day-to-Day Stroke Care: A Promising Tool but Not Widely Used
title_sort wearable activity monitoring in day-to-day stroke care: a promising tool but not widely used
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8231529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34204824
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21124066
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