Oduor Michael, Korniloff Katariina, Gasana Juliette, Tumusiime David K, Aartolahti Eeva
Institute of Rehabilitation, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland.
School of Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2023 Nov 23;12:e48952. doi: 10.2196/48952.
Estimations show that at least one in every 3 people in the world needs rehabilitation at some point in the course of their illness or injury. Access to rehabilitation services is an essential part of the continuum of care and is integral to achieving universal health coverage. However, most of the world's population living in low- and middle-income countries, especially in the sub-Saharan African region, does not have access to adequate rehabilitation services. Wider adoption of digital solutions offers opportunities to support and enhance access to rehabilitation services in sub-Saharan Africa. A region where there is a greater burden and need for these services. There is also little published research about digital rehabilitation in sub-Saharan Africa, as it is an underexamined topic in the region.
This scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the current evidence of digital interventions in rehabilitation implemented in any health, social, educational, or community setting in the sub-Saharan Africa region.
We will conduct a scoping review using Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework and follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. We will develop search strategies for a selected number of web-based databases, search for peer-reviewed scientific publications until September 2023, and screen the reference lists of relevant articles. We will include research articles if they describe or report the use of digital interventions in the rehabilitation of patients with any health problem or disability in sub-Saharan Africa. For selected articles, we will extract data using a customized data extraction form and use thematic analysis to compare the findings across studies.
The preliminary database search in MEDLINE (EBSCO) was completed in May 2023. The research team will conduct a search of relevant articles in the autumn. The results will be synthesized and reported under the key conceptual categories of this review, and we expect the final scoping review to be ready for submission in early 2024.
We expect to find gaps in the research and a lack of detailed information about digital rehabilitation interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as potential areas for further study. We will identify opportunities to inform the development of digital rehabilitation interventions.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): PRR1-10.2196/48952.
据估计，世界上至少每三个人中就有一人在患病或受伤过程中的某个阶段需要康复治疗。获得康复服务是连续护理的重要组成部分，也是实现全民健康覆盖不可或缺的一部分。然而，世界上大多数生活在低收入和中等收入国家的人口，尤其是撒哈拉以南非洲地区的人口，无法获得足够的康复服务。更广泛地采用数字解决方案为支持和加强撒哈拉以南非洲地区的康复服务获取提供了机会。该地区对这些服务的负担和需求更大。关于撒哈拉以南非洲地区数字康复的已发表研究也很少，因为这是该地区一个研究不足的主题。
本范围综述旨在全面呈现撒哈拉以南非洲地区在任何健康、社会、教育或社区环境中实施的康复数字干预措施的现有证据。
我们将使用阿克西和奥马利的方法框架进行范围综述，并遵循乔安娜·布里格斯研究所的范围综述方法。我们将为选定的一些基于网络的数据库制定搜索策略，搜索截至2023年9月的同行评审科学出版物，并筛选相关文章的参考文献列表。如果研究文章描述或报告了在撒哈拉以南非洲地区对任何健康问题或残疾患者进行康复治疗时使用数字干预措施，我们将纳入这些文章。对于选定的文章，我们将使用定制的数据提取表提取数据，并使用主题分析来比较各项研究的结果。
2023年5月完成了在MEDLINE（EBSCO）中的初步数据库搜索。研究团队将在秋季搜索相关文章。结果将在本综述的关键概念类别下进行综合和报告，我们预计最终的范围综述将于2024年初准备好提交。
我们预计会发现研究中的差距以及关于撒哈拉以南非洲地区数字康复干预措施的详细信息不足，以及潜在的进一步研究领域。我们将确定为数字康复干预措施的开发提供信息的机会。
国际注册报告识别号（IRRID）：PRR1-10.2196/48952
