Patient Preferences for Telerehabilitation Compared to In-Person Physiotherapy: A Binary Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the key factors that influence patients' preferences for telerehabilitation consultations in comparison to traditional in-person physiotherapy consultations and explore how these factors vary across different patient demographic characteristics.

Methods

A binary discrete choice experiment was conducted with 152 participants who had participated in physiotherapy. The primary outcome measures were the attributes related to telerehabilitation and in-person consultations, including appointment duration, cost, distance, purpose, therapist, time of day, and wait time. Participants' preferences were assessed based on their choices in the binary choice experiment.

Results

The study did not identify any attributes of consultations that clearly influenc

SUBMITTER: Ross MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863538 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature