Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients' Acceptance in E-Health Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT: Telehealth (TH) interventions with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management were introduced in the literature more than 20 years ago with different labeling, but there was no summary for the overall acceptance and dropout rates as well as associated variables. This review aims to summarize the acceptance and dropout rates used in TH interventions and identify to what extent clinical settings, sociodemographic factors, and intervention factors might impact the overall acceptance and completion rates of TH interventions. We conducted a systematic search up to April 2021 on CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE (Ovid), Cochrane, Web of Sciences, and Embase to retrieve randomized and non-randomized control trials that provide TH interventions alone or accompanied with other interventions to i

SUBMITTER: Alghamdi SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156037 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature