Acceptance of telerehabilitation in chronic pain: the patients' perspective

TY - THES

T1 - Acceptance of telerehabilitation in chronic pain

T2 - the patients' perspective

AU - Cranen, Karlijn

N1 - Karlijn Cranen werd geboren op 26 juni 1983 in Wijchen. Na het afronden van haar VWO-opleiding aan het Maaswaal College te Wijchen koos zij voor de studie Communication Science, specialisatie gezondheid en voorlichting, aan de Universiteit Twente. Deze studie rondde ze in maart 2007 af en kwam daarna als promovendus in dienst bij Roessingh Research and Development. Behalve aan haar promotieonderzoek, werkte ze daar in de hoedanigheid van projectlid of projectleider aan verscheidene projecten op het gebied van telemedicine, waaronder Euregio �� Healthcare without haar wetenschappelijke carriere zorgde. Aan de Washington School of Photography rondde ze een vakopleiding fotografie af en begon een eigen fotografie bedrijf. Na terugkeer in Nederland, hervatte zij haar promotieonderzoek waarvan dit proefschrift het eindresultaat is.

PY - 2018/6/15

Y1 - 2018/6/15

N2 - Chronic pain is considered a major public health problem. In addition to the physical and emotional burden that chronic pain brings, it gives rise to significant health care costs. Although conventional rehabilitation programs are effective, the use of telerehabilitation, providing remote care via communication technologies, is expected to offer several advantages over conventional clinic-based rehabilitation because it affords patients to rehabilitate within their own social environment. This can facilitate the care delivery process, increase access of care and improve patients' well-being and quality of life. However, despite the great potential of telerehabilitation, its intended benefits will only be realized when these treatments are accepted and used by patients as fully fledged alternatives to conventional care. Therefore, an understanding of patients' reasons for accepting or refusing relerehabilitation is crucial.The aim of this thesis is to identify drivers and barriers related to patients' acceptance of exercise-based telerehabilitation for chronic pain. This will provide more insight into strategies that may improve telerehabilitation design and as such may facilitate the uptake of prospective telerehabilitation services.

AB - Chronic pain is considered a major public health problem. In addition to the physical and emotional burden that chronic pain brings, it gives rise to significant health care costs. Although conventional rehabilitation programs are effective, the use of telerehabilitation, providing remote care via communication technologies, is expected to offer several advantages over conventional clinic-based rehabilitation because it affords patients to rehabilitate within their own social environment. This can facilitate the care delivery process, increase access of care and improve patients' well-being and quality of life. However, despite the great potential of telerehabilitation, its intended benefits will only be realized when these treatments are accepted and used by patients as fully fledged alternatives to conventional care. Therefore, an understanding of patients' reasons for accepting or refusing relerehabilitation is crucial.The aim of this thesis is to identify drivers and barriers related to patients' acceptance of exercise-based telerehabilitation for chronic pain. This will provide more insight into strategies that may improve telerehabilitation design and as such may facilitate the uptake of prospective telerehabilitation services.

KW - telerehabilitiation in chronic pain

KW - chronic pain

KW - Telehealth

KW - social environment

KW - health care costs

KW - public health

KW - communication

KW - quality of life

KW - exercise

KW - technology

KW - therapeutics

U2 - 10.3990/1.9789036545556

DO - 10.3990/1.9789036545556

M3 - PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT

SN - 978-90-365-4555-6

T3 - IDS PhD. Thesis Series

PB - University of Twente

CY - Enschede

ER -