ArticleActa diabetologica2021
I fear COVID but diabetic foot (DF) is worse: a survey on patients' perception of a telemedicine service for DF during lockdown.
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- Psychological and emotional aspects in people with diabetic foot disease: a systematic scoping review.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Data-driven digital health technologies in the remote clinical care of diabetic foot ulcers: a scoping review.Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2023Article
- Telehealth has comparable outcomes to in-person diabetic foot care during the COVID-19 pandemic.World journal of methodology · 2022Article
- Covid-19 lockdown showed a likely beneficial effect on diabetic foot ulcers.Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews · 2022Observational
- Diabetic foot disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned for our future.Archives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases · 2022Article
- The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia and wound care.Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society · 2022Review
- Preferences for Alternative Care Modalities Among French Adults With Chronic Illness.JAMA network open · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimsTo evaluate the patients' perceptions of telemedicine visits during COVID-19 lockdown and their level of anxiety about COVID and diabetic foot (DF).
methodsIn May 2020, we contacted by phone all the patients who underwent in March and April to remote monitoring visits for DF during the lockdown for COVID-19, with a structured interview, focusing on their perceptions about telemedicine service for DF and on the anxiety toward COVID and DF.
resultsWe analyzed 257 remote monitoring visits in 211 patients. Two hundred and six patients answered the follow-up interview; 177 patients (85.9%) remembered the monitoring visit, 140 (67.9%) the health care professional and 181 patients (87.9%) the reason of contact; 169 patients were alone during the visit, 37 with a relative. Patients judged useful both the monitoring during pandemic (4.35 ± 0.28 on a maximum of five) and the possibility to continue after the lockdown (4.34 ± 0.23 on a maximum of five). Eventually, we observed that DF patients were more worried by DF than by COVID on a scale from 0 (not fear at all) to 5 (terrified) (4.79 ± 0.05 vs. 3.27 ± 1.03, p < 0.05). This difference was higher in previously ulcerated patients (4.84 ± 0.03 vs. 3.03 ± 1.13, p < 0.05) and even more in amputees (4.93 ± 0.03 vs. 2.73 ± 1.21, p < 0.05).
conclusionsDF patients appreciated televisits during lockdown and the continuation of this service after its end. In this context DF prevails on COVID in the worries of patients, especially if they are recurrent ones.
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