Parent-Reported Use of Pediatric Primary Care Telemedicine: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telemedicine delivered from primary care practices became widely available for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective

Focusing on children with a usual source of care, we aimed to examine factors associated with use of primary care telemedicine.

Methods

In February 2022, we surveyed parents of children aged ≤17 years on the AmeriSpeak panel, a probability-based panel of representative US households, about their children's telemedicine use. We first compared sociodemographic factors among respondents who did and did not report a usual source of care for their children. Among those reporting a usual source of care, we used Rao-Scott F tests to examine factors associated with parent-reported use versus nonuse of primary care telemedicine for their ch

SUBMITTER: Ray KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951070 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature