Use of the Digital Assistant “Vigo” at Home Environment for Stroke Recovery: Focus Group Discussion with Specialists Working in Neurorehabilitation

  • Klinta Epalte (Speaker)
  • Aleksandrs Grjadovojs (Co-author)
  • Bērziņa, G. (Co-author)

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Description

    The aim of this study is to identify the requirements for a tablet-based home program for stroke recovery from a specialist working in stroke rehabilitation perspective.. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted to identify the eligibility requirements of the tablet-based home rehabilitation program Vigo for stroke recovery from a specialist perspective. The main interest of concern was a better understanding of specialists' attitudes, experience and expectations about the use of the digital assistant “Vigo” as home-based rehabilitation program for stroke recovery in domains of application’s functionality, compliance, usability and content. . In total 17 healthcare proffesionals (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician) participated in three focus group disscutions. Four main themes were identified: 1) clinician’s views on using Vigo as a home-based rehabilitation system, 2) patient related circumstances facilitating and limiting the use of Vigo, 3) Vigo application functionality and its use process (programme creation, individual use, remote support), 4) complementary and alternative Vigo use perspectives. Last three themes were divided totally in 10 subthemes and two of those subthemes had two sub-subthemes each. . Healthcare professionals expressed a positive attitude towards the usability of the application, but acknowledged the application is still a work in progress to show any improvements in patient functional outcomes. Coherency is needed between the aim of the application and the description defined by the developers to use the application according to its intended goal. To have a therapeutic effect, close involvement of rehabilitation specialists is needed in the process of the development of the application and research process.
    Period29 Mar 2023
    Event titleRSU International Research Conference 2023: Knowledge for Use in Practice
    Event typeConference
    OrganiserRīga Stradiņš University
    LocationRiga, LatviaShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

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