ArticleJournal of primary care & community health
Comfort With Telehealth Among Residents of an Underserved Urban Area.
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- Telehealth Models for PrEP Delivery: A Systematic Review of Acceptability, Implementation, and Impact on the PrEP Care Continuum in the United States.AIDS and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of a Self-directed Approach to Identifying Health Priorities in a Sample of Southern Older African American Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- A person-centered approach to digital health technologies for cancer prevention: Qualitative findings on use of technology-based interventions in Houston, Texas.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- The Rise, Fall, and Readjustment of Telehealth: Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Its Use in an Academic Health Clinic.Applied clinical informatics · 2025Article
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- Patient perceptions of and experiences with stigma using telehealth for opioid use disorder treatment: a qualitative analysis.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
- Exploring Barriers Toward Telehealth in an Underserved, Uninsured Patient Population.Telemedicine reports · 2024Article
- Temporal Trends in Telehealth Availability in Mental Health Treatment Settings: Differences in Growth by State Rurality, 2015-2020.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Telemedicine in an adolescent and young adult medicine clinic: a mixed methods study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- How COVID-19 Broke the Barriers Related to the Implementation of Telecare-Patients' Experiences with a New form of Providing Health Services in Primary Health Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Examining and Addressing Telemedicine Disparities Through the Lens of the Social Determinants of Health: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider During the COVID-19 Pandemic.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundDeployment of telehealth has been touted as a means of reducing health disparities in underserved groups. However, efforts to reduce regulatory barriers have not been associated with greater telehealth uptake. The goal of this study was to examine engagement with technology among low-income people of color living in Newark, New Jersey.
methodsUsing surveys and focus groups, we examined study participants' daily use of technology (eg, Internet) and comfort with telehealth services (eg, use of teleconferencing for medication refills) before and after COVID-related social distancing mandates went into effect.
resultsUse of technology was significantly lower in the pre-COVID period. However, prior months' use of technology had a weak but significant correlation with comfort with telehealth (
conclusionOur study found that approximately 20% of people in this under-resourced community lacked access to basic technologies necessary for successful deployment of telehealth services. The study's timing provided an unexpected opportunity to compare experiences and attitudes relating to telehealth in 2 regulatory environments. Although uptake of telehealth services increased with the Federal governments' relaxation of regulatory barriers, there was not a similar increase in comfort with telehealth use. Investments in broadband access and equipment should be accompanied by educational programs to increase day-to-day use of and comfort with associated technologies which would improve consumer confidence in telehealth.
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