Partanen Tuija, Seppänen-Järvelä Riitta, Hiekkala Sinikka, Lindh Jari
Kela Research, The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, P.O. Box 450, 00056 KELA, Helsinki, Finland, 358 206341944.
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol. 2025 Jul 28;12:e74296. doi: 10.2196/74296.
BACKGROUND: Both rehabilitation practice and rehabilitation professionals' work have been transformed by the adoption of different technological solutions. Sociotechnical theory can be used to analyze the adoption of technologies in rehabilitation practice. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to enhance the understanding of the sociotechnical perspective of telerehabilitation (TR) in rehabilitation practice, as well as the understanding of how sociotechnical frameworks can be used to examine the implementation of telerehabilitation in outpatient rehabilitation. METHODS: A survey of rehabilitation professionals (N=629) was conducted in a Finnish outpatient rehabilitation setting. Data from 5 open-ended questions were analyzed using inductive, deductive, and abductive qualitative content analysis. An analysis matrix formed from the Fit between Individuals, Tasks, and Technology (FITT) and the Fit between Individuals, Tasks, Technology, and Environment (FITTE) frameworks was used. RESULTS: Deductive analysis revealed that in individual-task fit, professionals' and clients' adequate skills, support for participation, and a positive attitude were essential. The task-technology fit highlighted the need for the professionals' familiarization, changes in methods and materials, and collaboration with clients and their close associates and networks. The individual-task fit revealed that professionals found TR tasks to be more complex than those in in-person practice and that TR increased professionals' perceived workload and clients' need for personal contact, especially during the familiarization phase. Our findings suggest that certain dimensions of the FITTE framework need to be specified in order to better understand the sociotechnical adaptation of TR. CONCLUSIONS: We propose an extension to create the Fit between Individual, Task, Technology, Interactive Sociotechnical Environment, and Organizational and Sociopolitical Context (FITTIO) framework, which provides conceptual tools for making contextual interpretations of the adoption of TR in rehabilitation settings. This study increases understanding of the sociotechnical nature of TR, which can be used in the adoption of technological solutions in rehabilitation practice.
背景:不同技术解决方案的采用改变了康复实践以及康复专业人员的工作。社会技术理论可用于分析康复实践中技术的采用情况。 目的:本研究旨在加深对远程康复(TR)在康复实践中的社会技术视角的理解,以及对如何利用社会技术框架来审视远程康复在门诊康复中的实施情况的理解。 方法:在芬兰门诊康复环境中对康复专业人员(N = 629)进行了一项调查。使用归纳、演绎和溯因定性内容分析法对来自5个开放式问题的数据进行了分析。采用了由个体 - 任务 - 技术适配(FITT)和个体 - 任务 - 技术 - 环境适配(FITTE)框架构成的分析矩阵。 结果:演绎分析表明,在个体 - 任务适配方面,专业人员和客户具备足够的技能、对参与的支持以及积极的态度至关重要。任务 - 技术适配突出了专业人员熟悉的必要性、方法和材料的改变以及与客户及其亲密伙伴和网络的协作。个体 - 任务适配表明,专业人员发现远程康复任务比面对面实践中的任务更复杂,并且远程康复增加了专业人员感知到的工作量以及客户对人际接触的需求,尤其是在熟悉阶段。我们的研究结果表明,为了更好地理解远程康复的社会技术适应性,需要明确FITTE框架的某些维度。 结论:我们提议扩展以创建个体 - 任务 - 技术 - 交互式社会技术环境 - 组织及社会政治背景适配(FITTIO)框架,该框架为在康复环境中采用远程康复进行情境解释提供了概念工具。本研究增进了对远程康复社会技术本质的理解,可用于康复实践中技术解决方案的采用。
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