Sustaining connections: feasibility and impact of long-term virtual patient engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual patient engagement has become more common in recent years. Emerging research suggests virtual engagement can increase accessibility for patients managing long-term health conditions and those living in larger geographic areas, but it can also be challenging to establish relationships and maintain engagement over time. Little is known about virtual engagement lasting more than two years, nor about the specific contributions of patients to virtual engagement projects. Here we describe a project where virtual engagement was sustained over a long period of time (3.5 years), measure patients' contributions to the work, and describe the facilitators and challenges of the project using the Valuing All Voices (VAV) patient engagement framework.

Methods

Five resear

SUBMITTER: Stefanik-Guizlo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894465 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature