Perspectives on telemedicine across urban, rural and remote areas in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study explored attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control of participants across urban, rural and remote settings and examined intention-to-use telemedicine (defined in this study as remote patient-clinician consultations) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study. 12 focus group discussions were conducted with 60 diverse telemedicine user and non-user participants across 3 study settings. Analysis of responses was done to understand the attitudes, norms and perceived behavioural control of participants. This explored the relationship between the aforementioned factors and intention to use.

Results

Both users and non-users of telemedicine relayed that the benefits of telemedicine include protection from C

SUBMITTER: Fabian N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11331966 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature