Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth use rapidly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding if, and how, people from disabilities used telehealth during the pandemic is vital to assuring this evolving and increasingly common form of health care is equitably developed and delivered to avoid reproducing the health d...
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Telehealth use rapidly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding if, and how, people from disabilities used telehealth during the pandemic is vital to assuring this evolving and increasingly common form of health care is equitably developed and delivered to avoid reproducing the health disparities people with disabilities already face. Our aim was to explore the use of telehealth among people with disabilities during the pandemic. We conducted a weighted secondary analysis of United States Census Bureau data (April-July 2021) from 38,512 (unweighted) people with disabilities. Our findings revealed 39.8% of people with disabilities used telehealth during the second year of the pandemic, ranging from 34.5% of people with hearing disabilities to 43.3% of people with mobility disabilities. There were also differences in telehealth use based on sociodemographics. Telehealth promises to open doors to more equitable health care access for many people with disabilities, but only if access barriers are removed.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ff63276457ba4ee2a0a7dd818a0adff02025-08-20T02:04:49ZengHawaii Pacific University LibraryInternational Journal of Telerehabilitation1945-20202021-12-0113210.5195/ijt.2021.6402Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 PandemicCarli Friedman0Laura VanPuymbrouck1CQL | The Council on Quality and LeadershipRush University Telehealth use rapidly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding if, and how, people from disabilities used telehealth during the pandemic is vital to assuring this evolving and increasingly common form of health care is equitably developed and delivered to avoid reproducing the health disparities people with disabilities already face. Our aim was to explore the use of telehealth among people with disabilities during the pandemic. We conducted a weighted secondary analysis of United States Census Bureau data (April-July 2021) from 38,512 (unweighted) people with disabilities. Our findings revealed 39.8% of people with disabilities used telehealth during the second year of the pandemic, ranging from 34.5% of people with hearing disabilities to 43.3% of people with mobility disabilities. There were also differences in telehealth use based on sociodemographics. Telehealth promises to open doors to more equitable health care access for many people with disabilities, but only if access barriers are removed. http://telerehab.pitt.edu/ojs/Telerehab/article/view/6402COVID-19 pandemic, Persons with disabilities, Telehealth |
| spellingShingle | Carli Friedman Laura VanPuymbrouck Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic International Journal of Telerehabilitation COVID-19 pandemic, Persons with disabilities, Telehealth |
| title | Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full | Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_short | Telehealth Use By Persons with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| title_sort | telehealth use by persons with disabilities during the covid 19 pandemic |
| topic | COVID-19 pandemic, Persons with disabilities, Telehealth |
| url | http://telerehab.pitt.edu/ojs/Telerehab/article/view/6402 |
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