Feasibility of orthopaedic teleconsulting in a geriatric rehabilitation service

Fifteen elderly patients participated in a teleconsultation with an orthopaedic surgeon, which was then followed by a conventional, face-to-face consultation. The comparison between the surgeon's ratings for both types of consultation suggested that the telemedicine consultation was satisfactory in terms of the quality of image and sound, the clinical examination and general simplicity. The telemedicine consultations did not generate a need for any additional clinical investigations, although in two cases a face-to-face consultation was necessary to clarify clinical signs (shortening of a limb and scar tissue). The surgeon's rating of his decision level was superior in the face-to-face situation in four cases, and for 11 patients it was equal. Similarly, the surgeon's level of confidence in decision making was superior in the conventional situation for five patients and equal for 10 patients. Patient attitudes towards teleconsulting were favourable. There was a high level of patient satisfaction. Teleconsulting between orthopaedic surgeons and elderly patients therefore appears to be possible, provided that certain technical, clinical and psychological considerations are addressed.

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Evaluating the alliance in videolink teletherapy

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare ◽

10.1258/1357633971930283 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 3 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 33-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

G J Ghosh ◽

P M Mclaren ◽

J P Watson

Keyword(s):

Working Alliance ◽

Psychological Treatment ◽

Single Case ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Control Group ◽

Face To Face ◽

Working Alliance Inventory ◽

The Face

The use of videoconferencing in psychotherapy remains largely unexplored. Videoconferencing compromises the range and quality of interactional information and thus might be expected to affect the working alliance (WA) between client and therapist, and consequently the process and outcome of therapy. A single case study exploring the effect of videoconferencing on the development of the WA in the psychological treatment of a female–male transsexual is described. The self-rated Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) was used to measure client and therapist perceptions of the WA after each session over 10 sessions of eclectic therapy conducted over a videolink. The serial WAI measurements charting the development of the WA in 4 cases of 10-session, face-to-face therapy by Horvath and Marx1 were used as a quasi-control. Therapist and client impressions of teletherapy are described. WAI scores were essentially similar to the face-to-face control group except for lower client-rated bond subscale scores. It is suggested that client personality factors accounted for this difference and that videoconferencing did not impair the development of an adequate working alliance or successful therapeutic outcome.

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Perceptions towards Online Counseling among University of Jordan Students

Modern Applied Science ◽

10.5539/mas.v11n12p68 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adel Tannous

Keyword(s):

Counseling Services ◽

Online Counseling ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Face To Face ◽

Adequate Information ◽

Life Problems ◽

The Face ◽

University Of Jordan ◽

High Level ◽

Use Of Internet

Technology and the use of internet has taken counseling service beyond the face-to-face to online counseling services. Online counseling has been available and widely used as more people are going online. Therefore this research aims to examine the perceptions of University of Jordan students toward online counseling. A sample of 210 respondents were selected to complete online questionnaire that contains two aspects of knowledge about and attitude toward online Counseling. The results of the study indicated that respondents have adequate information about the field of online counseling. However, face to face counseling was not the first preferences for most of the respondents. They have a positive attitude and a high level of preferring toward online counseling, and they believe that online counseling is an essential part of their way to deal with daily life problems. The results also indicated that social media is most effective way that help respondents to get online counseling, and it has tremendous effect on respondent's life.

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Increasing Student Engagement by Flipping the Course

Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings ◽

10.13021/g8659m ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Debra Sprague

Keyword(s):

Student Engagement ◽

Flipped Learning ◽

Student Work ◽

Course Content ◽

Face To Face ◽

Online Technologies ◽

The Face ◽

Online Lecture ◽

Education Courses

Flipping the classroom has gained much attention over the past couple of years. It involves using video and online technologies to provide the lecture portion of a lesson. Students view the online lecture for homework, while class time is spent engaged in applying what is learned from the lecture. By doing this, it is believed students become active learners and take more responsibility for their learning.Although a skeptic of the flipped learning model (after all, a lecture is a lecture no matter what format it takes) the presenter decided to give it a try and flip one of her teacher education courses. The result was more student engagement, better quality of student work, and increase in student evaluations.This presentation will focus on strategies for flipping a course through the creation of a hybrid (combination of online and face-to-face) course. The presenter will share with the audience how she provided meaningful online activities and how she engaged the students during the face-to-face classes. Although the course content derives from the education discipline, the strategies presented can fit any content area.

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Self-administered versus interview-based questionnaires among patients with intermittent claudication: Do they give different results? A cross-sectional study

Sao Paulo Medical Journal ◽

10.1590/1516-3180.2015.01733009 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 134 (1) ◽

pp. 63-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Francisco Lozano ◽

José María Lobos ◽

José Ramón March ◽

Eduardo Carrasco ◽

Marcello Barbosa Barros ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Intermittent Claudication ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Self Administration ◽

Chi Square ◽

Vascular Surgeon ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Face To Face ◽

Clinical Investigations ◽

Administration Method ◽

High Level

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Many clinical investigations use generic and/or specific questionnaires to obtain information about participants and patients. There is disagreement about whether the administration method can affect the results. The aim here was to determine whether, among patients with intermittent claudication (IC), there are differences in the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) and European Quality of Life-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) scores with regard to: 1) the questionnaire administration method (self-administration versus face-to-face interview); and 2) the type of interviewer (vascular surgeon, VS, versus general practitioner, GP). DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional observational multicenter epidemiological study carried out within the Spanish National Health Service. METHODS: 1,641 evaluable patients with IC firstly completed the WIQ and EQ-5D questionnaires and then were interviewed by their doctor on the same day. Pearson correlations and Chi-square tests were used. RESULTS: There was a strong correlation (r > 0.800; P < 0.001) between the two methods of administering the WIQ and EQ-5D questionnaires, and between the VS and GP groups. Likewise, there was a high level of concordance (P > 0.05) between the different dimensions of the WIQ-distance and EQ-5D (self-administration versus face-to-face) in the VS and GP groups. CONCLUSION: There was no difference between the different methods of administering the WIQ and EQ-5D questionnaires, among the patients with IC. Similarly, the two types of interviewers (VS or GP) were equally valid. Therefore, it seems unnecessary to expend effort to administer these questionnaires by interview, in studies on IC.

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An Overview of Telemedicine Technologies for Healthcare Applications

Wearable Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5484-4.ch031 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 732-759 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. S. Pandian

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Physiological Monitoring ◽

Improve Quality ◽

Healthcare Applications ◽

Allied Health Professionals ◽

Face To Face ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

The Face

Medical care generally relies on the face-to-face encounter between patients and doctors. In places where face-to-face encounters are not possible, telemedicine technologies are relied upon to link patients to specialist doctors for consultation and to obtain opinion. The telemedicine technologies provide improved health care to the underprivileged in inaccessible areas at reduced cost. Telemedicine also improve quality of health care and more importantly reduce the isolation of specialists, nurses and allied health professionals. This review papers discusses the telemedicine technologies and its history, the communications technologies that are being used. The paper also covers the advantages and benefits of telemedicine. Also the recent advances that are going on in telemedicine in the areas of m-health, Wearable Physiological Monitoring System (WPMS), Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). Finally, the paper concludes with some of the drawbacks or issues of telemedicine technologies.

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The Impact of Personality on Virtual Team Creativity and Quality

Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch046 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 647-655

Author(s):

Rosalie J. Ocker

Keyword(s):

Virtual Teams ◽

Synchronous Communication ◽

Individual Member ◽

Team Creativity ◽

Face To Face ◽

Team Outcomes ◽

Individual Personality ◽

High Level ◽

The Impact

A series of experiments investigated creativity and quality of work-product solutions in virtual teams (Ocker, forthcoming; Ocker, 2005; Ocker & Fjermestad, 1998; Ocker et al., 1998; 1996). Across experiments, small teams with about five graduate students interacted for approximately two weeks to determine the high-level requirements and design for a computerized post office (Goel, 1989; Olson et al., 1993). The means of interaction was manipulated in these experiments such that teams interacted via one of the following treatments: (1) asynchronous computer-medicated communication (CMC), (2) synchronous CMC, (3) asynchronous CMC interspersed with face-to-face (FtF) meetings, or (4) a series of traditional FtF meetings without any electronic communication. A repeated finding across experiments was that teams interacting only using asynchronous CMC – that is, teams without any FtF or synchronous communication -- produced significantly more creative results than teams in the other treatments. Additionally, asynchronous virtual teams rated high in creativity were generally not the same teams that were judged high in terms of the quality of their deliverable. To further examine these findings, this chapter presents results of an exploratory study designed to investigate the impact of individual personality facets on team outcomes. The objective of this study is to determine whether differences in team outcomes – in terms of the level of creativity versus the quality of the team deliverable – can be predicted by individual member personality.no abstract

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What Opinions Do People Have Through the Understanding Concerning High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Project?

18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering: Volume 2 ◽

10.1115/icone18-29340 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Hiroshi Kimura ◽

Masashi Furukawa ◽

Daisuke Sugiyama ◽

Taiji Chida

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Radioactive Waste ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Radioactive Waste Disposal ◽

High Level Radioactive Waste ◽

Face To Face ◽

Lay Persons ◽

The Face ◽

Amount Of Knowledge ◽

High Level

In Japan, the implementation of the high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal is one of urgent issues in the situation that Japan will continue the use of nuclear power. But, the lay people may not have the sufficient amount of information and knowledge about HLW disposal to hold their opinions about this issue. In this research, in order to clarify what opinions they will have with enough information and knowledge, we had the face-to-face dialogues about the HLW disposal with 2 or 3 lay persons. The dialogues were conducted 11 times with different lay persons’ groups. In these dialogues, after the lay participants had a certain amount of knowledge about HLW disposal, they became to talk about their opinions to the HLW disposal program in Japan. These opinions included the doubt against the open solicitation to select the siting area in the HLW disposal program of Japan, the emotion like NIMBY, the indication of lack of public relations about HLW disposal, and so on.

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Pelaksanaan Jaring Aspirasi Sebagai Komunikasi Publik Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Kulon Progo

Nuansa Akademik: Jurnal Pembangunan Masyarakat ◽

10.47200/jnajpm.v4i1.501 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Bawa Supratman ◽

Fatah Nashir ◽

Ahmad Syafi'i Rahman ◽

Zainul Arifin ◽

Cipto Sembodo

Keyword(s):

Public Service ◽

Public Information ◽

Regional Government ◽

Face Model ◽

Face To Face ◽

The People ◽

The Face ◽

Data Validity ◽

Legal Sociology

Jaring Aspirasi is a liaison between the people and the local government leaders of Kulonprogo Regency. With the face-to-face model with a regent every Thursday, it is hoped that public information will be absorbed immediately to solve problems as soon as possible. This legal sociology study is intended to find out how the process works. then the research was conducted by means of observation, documentation and interviews. Triangulation was also carried out to obtain data validity as expected. Qualitative analysis is analytical descriptive of the results of the collected data. The information and public complaints in the seminar department are resolved in four categories depending on the quality of the information. This pattern satisfies members of the community and makes them realize that information cannot always be resolved at one time, especially in matters requiring disposition with other institutions. Kamispaginan as a form of public service is a form of joint deliberation between the regional government and the community which should be continued with increased socialization so that community participation will also increase.

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VA Video Telehealth and Training Programs During the COVID-19 Response

Telehealth and Medicine Today ◽

10.30953/tmt.v6.241 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rhonda Johnston ◽

Rita F. Kobb ◽

Claire Marty ◽

Padraic McVeigh

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Surgical Care ◽

Office Visits ◽

Face To Face ◽

Patient Interaction ◽

Telemedicine Consultation ◽

Physician Patient ◽

And Training

Study Design: An online survey modeled after the TeleENT Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Medical Communication Competence Scale (MCCS) were administered to gauge patient experience with electronic medical record-based telemedicine visits. Results: Participants noted several advantages of telemedicine visits over traditional in-office visits: shorter visits, saving money, and avoiding potential exposure during the pandemic. Thirty-six percent of the patients agreed that the quality of care was hindered by the lack of a physical exam, and 61.7% of the patients agreed that they prefer a face-to-face visit rather than telemedicine consultation. Most patients were satisfied with the care they received via telemedicine (Likert 6.19/7), and 95.8% of the patients would use telemedicine again. Participants self-reported an average saving of $108.70 when using telemedicine. When comparing the telemedicine cohort to the in-office control, the telemedicine patients noted an improved ability to communicate with their physician in 5 out of 8 domains of the MCCS. Conclusion: Surgical preoperative consultation, postoperative follow-up, and routine visits were conducted via telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic, representing a new direction for surgical appointments and consultations. This study shows that telehealth provides satisfactory care and increases access to surgical care for patients when external factors prevent the traditional physician–patient interaction. With better-perceived communication via telemedicine appointments, patients may subjectively feel that they can express their symptoms and gather information from the doctor regarding their diagnosis more efficiently.

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Effect of Self-Care Education by Face-to-Face Method on the Quality of Life in Hemodialysis Patients (Relying on Ferrans and Powers Questionnaire)

Global Journal of Health Science ◽

10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p121 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 121 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Mahsa Sabet Ghadam ◽

Farzad Poorgholami ◽

Zohreh Badiyepeymaie Jahromi ◽

Nehleh Parandavar ◽

Navid Kalani ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Self Care ◽

Hemodialysis Patients ◽

Control Group ◽

Life Questionnaire ◽

Face To Face ◽

Care Education ◽

Educational Group ◽

The Face

INTRODUTION: One of the most common methods to control chronic renal failure, Hemodialysis creates numerous changes in the style and the quality of life in patients. Educating patients is one of effective factors to improve the quality of life. The present study aims to investigate influences of self-care education by face-to-face method on determining quality of life in hemodialysis patients in Jahrom, Iran, during 2014-2015.METHODS: This is a quasi-experimental, single-blind study in which 50 patients undergoing hemodialysis at Shahaid Mottahari Hospital, Jahrom. The patients were placed in two groups of 25 individuals: the face to face educational group and the control group. The control group received only routine care in hemodialysis unit. The face to face educational group received 8 instruction sessions of 60 minutes before starting dialysis and received an instruction booklet. Data collection tools were a questionnaire consisting of demographic characteristics, a checklist of needs assessment for hemodialysis patients and a quality of life questionnaire, whose reliability and validity were previously approved. The questionnaires were completed face to face, before and after the intervention.RESULTS: The results show that the research units did not have any significant difference in terms of demographic variables. Also increase in various aspects of the quality of life compared with the control group is observed after the intervention in the face to face educational group (p<0.001).DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION: Given the results, representation of adequate training in hemodialysis ward can cause improve in physical function, mental health and thus increase the quality of life in hemodialysis patients, through raising the awareness level.

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