What is it about?
The objective of this article was to provide clinicians, from multiple disciplines, important information to consider when providing health education and emotional support to persons with chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD) and their informal caregivers via telehealth particularly families living in rural and geographically isolated areas as well as those who are not physically well enough to attend clinic-based appointments. We provide information about the physical and psychosocial aspects of living with CLRD from the perspective of patients and informal caregivers along with 7 practical recommendations for providing telehealth services to this population. Our aim is to better equip telehealth clinicians who are working with this special population through our interdisciplinary lens (gerontology, nursing, health psychology, and social work).
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Why is it important?
A formal literature review, needs and preferences survey, and our interdisciplinary clinical expertise shaped our recommendations for the provision of telehealth education and emotional support for persons with chronic lower respiratory disease (CLRD) and their informal caregivers. The recommendations were written in the context of COVID-19 pandemic which has increased the need for telehealth services for this clinical population as well as empirically supported education for the clinicians who serve them.
Perspectives
There are many people and their families who are in need of emotional support and psychoeducation who can't come into clinics due to geopgraphic isolation, finances, and other factors such as severe illness. This is especially true for persons with chronic respiratory diseases.
Dr. Jocelyn Shealy McGee
Baylor University
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This page is a summary of: Telehealth services for persons with chronic lower respiratory disease and their informal caregivers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic., Practice Innovations, June 2020, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pri0000122.
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