Communication Technology Preferences of Hospitalized and Institutionalized Frail Older Adults During COVID-19 Confinement : Cross-Sectional Survey Study

©Guillaume Sacco, Sébastien Lléonart, Romain Simon, Frédéric Noublanche, Cédric Annweiler, TOVID Study Group. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org), 18.09.2020..

BACKGROUND: Technological communication methods such as telephone calls and video calls can help prevent social isolation and loneliness in frail older adults during confinement.

OBJECTIVE: Our objectives were to determine which virtual communication method (ie, telephone call or video call) was preferred by confined older hospital patients and nursing home residents and the variables influencing this preference.

METHODS: The TOVID (Telephony Or Videophony for Isolated elDerly) study was a cross-sectional study that was designed to examine the preference between telephone calls and video calls among frail older adults who were either hospitalized in a geriatric acute care unit or institutionalized in a long-term care and nursing home during the COVID-19 confinement period.

RESULTS: A total of 132 older people were surveyed between March 25 and May 11, 2020 (mean age 88.2 years, SD 6.2); 79 (59.8%) were women. Patients hospitalized in the geriatric acute care unit were more able to establish communication independently than residents institutionalized in the long-term care and nursing home (P=.03) and were more satisfied with their communication experiences (P=.02). Overall, older people tended to favor telephone calls (73/132, 55.3%) over video calls (59/132, 44.7%); however, their satisfaction degree was similar regardless of the chosen method (P=.1), with no effect of age (P=.97) or gender (P=.2). In the geriatric acute care unit, the satisfaction degrees were similar for telephone calls (40/41, 98%) and video calls (33/38, 87%) in older patients (P=.10). Conversely, in the long-term care and nursing home, residents were more satisfied with the use of video calls to communicate with their relatives (14/15, 93%) versus the use of telephone calls (6/12, 50%; P=.02).

CONCLUSIONS: Older people confined to health care settings were able to complete telephone calls more independently than video calls, and they tended to use telephone calls more often than video calls. The satisfaction degrees were similar with both modalities and even greater with video calls among long-term care and nursing home residents when they were given assistance to establish communication.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04333849: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04333849.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

JMIR mHealth and uHealth - 8(2020), 9 vom: 18. Sept., Seite e21845

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sacco, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Lléonart, Sébastien [VerfasserIn]
Simon, Romain [VerfasserIn]
Noublanche, Frédéric [VerfasserIn]
Annweiler, Cédric [VerfasserIn]
TOVID Study Group [VerfasserIn]
Angebault, Françoise [Sonstige Person]
Annweiler, Cédric [Sonstige Person]
Marine, Asfar [Sonstige Person]
Melinda, Beaudenon [Sonstige Person]
France, Bertrand [Sonstige Person]
Marie, Brichard [Sonstige Person]
Jean, Barré [Sonstige Person]
Bordier, Gabriel [Sonstige Person]
Bouchet, Inès [Sonstige Person]
Bouchevreau, Aude [Sonstige Person]
Brangier, Antoine [Sonstige Person]
Chanson, Adeline [Sonstige Person]
Chausson, Isabelle [Sonstige Person]
Collet, Linda [Sonstige Person]
Daussy, Marie [Sonstige Person]
Delneste, Luc [Sonstige Person]
Dolbeau, Elise [Sonstige Person]
Dronne, Maxime [Sonstige Person]
Du Plessis, Brune [Sonstige Person]
Duval, Guillaume [Sonstige Person]
Gabard, Lydia Gabard [Sonstige Person]
Gautier, Jennifer [Sonstige Person]
Guyard, Anne [Sonstige Person]
Housty, Tiphaine [Sonstige Person]
Jouanno, Valentin [Sonstige Person]
Le Ho, Clémence [Sonstige Person]
Lepoureau, Cassandra [Sonstige Person]
Lléonart, Sébastien [Sonstige Person]
Loison, Mélanie [Sonstige Person]
Loison, Jocelyne [Sonstige Person]
Loufrani, Laurence [Sonstige Person]
Lucas, Emilie [Sonstige Person]
Macé, Camille [Sonstige Person]
Maire, Naomi [Sonstige Person]
Marla, Clément [Sonstige Person]
Martin, Nathalie [Sonstige Person]
Mathieu, Andréa [Sonstige Person]
Mauger, Morgane [Sonstige Person]
Mayet, Sahondra [Sonstige Person]
Menon, Justine [Sonstige Person]
Messian, Frédéric [Sonstige Person]
Moucheboeuf, Constance [Sonstige Person]
Mussard, Antoine [Sonstige Person]
Noublanche, Frédéric [Sonstige Person]
Octau, Antoine [Sonstige Person]
Otekpo, Marie [Sonstige Person]
Phuong-Anh Carion, Capucine [Sonstige Person]
Poile, Valentin [Sonstige Person]
Quentin, Lisa [Sonstige Person]
Renaudin, Anne [Sonstige Person]
Roger, Gwladys [Sonstige Person]
Rousseau, Quentin [Sonstige Person]
Roult, Florence [Sonstige Person]
Sacco, Guillaume [Sonstige Person]
Simon, Claire [Sonstige Person]
Simon, Ophélie [Sonstige Person]
Simon, Romain [Sonstige Person]
Surget, Romane [Sonstige Person]
Tourrel, Violette [Sonstige Person]
Trubert, Lise [Sonstige Person]
Watteaux, Inès [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Clinical Trial
Communication
Confinement
Elderly
Hospital
Journal Article
Loneliness
Nursing home
Older adults
Social isolation
Technology
Telephone
Video communication

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.09.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04333849

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2196/21845

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314695311