Patient Experience of Using Telehealth Services during COVID-19 in Dubai Health Authority: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Electronic Survey
Value in Health
; 26(6 Supplement):S241, 2023.
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| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-20232166
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
To examine patients' telehealth usability during COVID-19 in Dubai. Method(s) A cross-sectional retrospective study adopted Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ). A total of 64,173 participants who used telehealth services during 2020 - 2021 were recruited from the electronic medical record to participate in electronic survey from October to December 2022. The survey was administered through DHA text messaging system. The survey examined participants' characteristics and the six domains of TUQ with a Likert scale. Frequency, percentage, and weighted mean score percentages were used as descriptive statistics to analyze this data. Result(s) A total of 1,535 participants completed the survey. The overall TUQ showed the mean age of users was 43.37 years (+/-11.67 SD). More than half of the users were females (65.21%), the majority were married (74.46%), of a UAE nationality (83.58%), had higher education (56.68%), and were currently working (57.13%). Consultations and COVID-19-related concerns (45.14%), medication refills (19.80%), and laboratory tests (18.24%) were the main reasons for telehealth visits. Weighted means of TUQ six domains were usefulness (87.11%), ease of use and learnability (86.98%), interface quality (85.73%), interaction quality (86.44%), reliability (79.48%), and satisfaction and future use (86.44%). Conclusion(s) Our study revealed high levels of usability and willingness to use telehealth services as an alternative modality to in-person consultations among the participants of the survey. Our results support the implementation of telehealth services in DHA;however, further studies are required to understand the applicability of telehealth after COVID-19 and how to further improve satisfaction.Copyright © 2023
adult; conference abstract; consultation; controlled study; coronavirus disease 2019; Dubai; electronic medical record; female; health survey; human; laboratory test; Likert scale; major clinical study; male; married person; nationality; questionnaire; reliability; retrospective study; satisfaction; telehealth; tertiary education; text messaging; usability
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Bases de dados de organismos internacionais
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Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
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Ensaios controlados aleatorizados
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Inglês
Revista:
Value in Health
Ano de publicação:
2023
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