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Introduction: Telemedicine services have steadily been relied upon since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding its usability and contextual performance is of paramount importance if it were to pervade the local health delivery system. Hence, a tool to assess usability is warranted. Objective: The study aims to adapt a reliable and validated instrument in English to Filipino, the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ), on evaluating the usability of telemedicine services in the Philippines. Methodology: The research is a translation and validation study. The methodology includes forward translation in collaboration with our UST Sentro sa Salin at Araling Salin and expert panel review with five experts using the telehealth system. It was followed by pretesting (pilot testing and cognitive debriefing) of the pre-final tool to 30 family medicine telehealth patients and field testing of the final instrument to 85 telehealth patients from USTH. Appropriate statistical methods for assessment included internal consistency, content validity and linguistic with conceptual equivalence. Results: All translated items were retained, but through the focus group discussion, several statements were modified to fit the cultural context. Each item and the overall tool showed excellent validity and internal consistency. The mean difference scores for each item and domain were less than ±0.25. Tests of equivalence showed that majority of items and each domain were not statistically different (p>0.05), suggesting that both questionnaires are similar and homogenous. Furthermore, the Bland-Altman plots for each dimension/domain are within the upper and lower boundaries indicating agreement between the two versions. Conclusion TUQ-Filipino is a valid and appropriate instrument to assess telehealth usability in the local setting.
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Background: Multiple international studies found that Telemedicine is acceptable to physicians and healthcare teams. However, there are no available studies to determine if the residents of a tertiary hospital are ready and welcoming to this new approach. Objective: To assess telemedicine readiness and acceptability among resident physicians of East Avenue Medical Center. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 139 East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) resident physicians using a web-based questionnaire. The majority of respondents were female (63.31%), with a mean age of 29.99 ± 2.45 years and a mean duration of training of 23 (11 to 34). Data were analyzed to determine readiness based on technological resource availability, hardware and software skills, and acceptability using a modified and validated questionnaire. Results: The majority have Smartphones 125 (89.93%) and Personal Computers 122 (87.77%) and have access to mobile data 128 (92.09%) and Wi-Fi 119 (85.61%). Mean perceived device and software skills were 3.28 ± 0.58 and 3.38 ± 0.56, respectively. The overall acceptability was 2.88 ± 0.58. Males have higher perceived device skills, however, both sexes have similar perceived software skills (p-value > 0.05) No correlation was seen between telemedicine acceptance with age and length of training. Conclusion This study demonstrated that EAMC resident physicians are equipped and ready for Telemedicine. Additionally, it demonstrated hesitancy but leaned towards telemedicine acceptance. Males have better perceived device skills, but readiness and acceptability are similar for both sexes in other domains. There is no correlation between age and length of training with readiness and acceptability.
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