Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration-Yanbu, Taibah University, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 12;18(16):8513. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18168513.
Monitoring COVID-19 patients with COPD has become one of the major tasks in preventing transmission and delivering emergency healthcare services after vaccination in case of any issues. Most COVID-19-affected patients are suggested to self-quarantine at home or in institutionalized quarantine centers. In such cases, it is essential to provide remote healthcare services. For remote healthcare monitoring, two approaches are being considered in this study, which include mHealth and Telehealth. A mixed-methods approach is adopted, where survey questionnaires are used for collecting information from 108 patients and semi-structured interviews are used with seven physicians regarding mHealth and Telehealth approaches. Survey results indicated that mHealth is rated to be slightly more effective than Telehealth, and interview results indicated that Telehealth is identified to be slightly more effective than mHealth in relation to parameters including usefulness, ease of use and learnability, interface and interaction quality, reliability, and satisfaction. However, both physicians and patients opined that both mHealth and Telehealth have a promising future with increasing adoption. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that both mHealth and Telehealth are considered to be effective in delivering remote care for COPD patients infected with COVID-19 at home. Implications of the study findings are discussed.
监测合并 COPD 的 COVID-19 患者已成为接种疫苗后预防传播和提供紧急医疗服务的主要任务之一。建议大多数 COVID-19 感染患者在家中或机构化隔离中心进行自我隔离。在这种情况下，提供远程医疗服务至关重要。对于远程医疗监测，本研究考虑了两种方法，包括移动医疗和远程医疗。采用混合方法，使用问卷调查从 108 名患者收集信息，并对 7 名医生进行半结构化访谈，了解移动医疗和远程医疗方法。调查结果表明，移动医疗的效果略好于远程医疗，访谈结果表明，在有用性、易用性和易学性、界面和交互质量、可靠性和满意度等参数方面，远程医疗的效果略好于移动医疗。然而，医生和患者都认为，随着采用率的提高，移动医疗和远程医疗都有广阔的前景。基于研究结果，可以得出结论，移动医疗和远程医疗都被认为可以有效地为在家中感染 COVID-19 的 COPD 患者提供远程护理。讨论了研究结果的意义。
