期刊
DIGITAL HEALTH
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/20552076231180682
关键词
Digital health; qualitative; video consultations; patient participation; affordances; communication; telemedicine; general practice
Video consultations enable patients to participate by providing an accessible format for those unable to attend physical consultations and by drawing on spatial resources and smartphone qualities for engagement in decision-making. More research is needed to explore the participatory opportunities of video consultations in telemedical healthcare services.
ObjectiveVideo consultations enable a digital point of contact between the general practitioner and patient. With their medium-specific characteristics, video consultations may create novel conditions for the enactment of patient participation during consultations. Although numerous studies have explored patients' experiences of video consultations, research explicitly investigating patient participation within this new consultation setting remains sparse. This qualitative study explores how patients participate during interactions with their general practitioner by drawing on the affordances of video consultations. MethodsThe data corpus comprises eight recorded video consultations (59 minutes and 19 seconds in total) between patients and their general practitioner, all subjected to reflexive thematic analysis yielding three themes illustrating concrete participatory use cases. ResultsWe find that video consultations provide an accessible format for patients otherwise unable to attend a physical consultation due to physical and mental barriers. Moreover, patients participate by drawing on resources situated in their spatial setting to settle health-related questions of doubt arising during the consultation. Lastly, we posit that patients enact participation by visually communicating their impromptu engagement in decision-making and reporting to their general practitioner by making use of the qualities of their smartphone during their consultation. ConclusionsOur findings illustrate how video consultations provide a communicative context in which patients may enact distinct forms of participation by drawing on its technologically contingent affordances during interactions with their general practitioner. More research is needed to explore the participatory opportunities of video consultations in telemedical healthcare services for different patient groups.
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