Development and Preliminary Validation of a Screener for Digital Health Readiness.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

While telehealth use has grown, patient uptake is variable, which has the potential to increase health disparities. Identifying and understanding individuals' barriers to digital health readiness can help health systems efficiently deploy resources to provide personalized patient-centered support.

Objective

To develop and validate an instrument to evaluate digital health readiness to identify and quantify barriers to digital readiness.

Design, setting, and participants

In this qualitative mixed-methods study conducted from April 26, 2022, to June 8, 2023, the instrument was created in 4 phases. Patients and health care professionals were interviewed to explore barriers to telehealth use, scale items were developed for the screener, cognitive interviews were

SUBMITTER: Rising KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388026 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature