The Academic Events Group, 10th World Conference on Medical and Health Sciences

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Patient Education with Telerehabilitation in the COVID 19 Pandemic
Prof. Dr. İlke Keser

Last modified: 2024-09-12

Abstract


With the interruption of access to hospitals and health services due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the need for access to information and telerehabilitation applications has increased through social media and mass media. The rapidly increasing studies and developments in this field are grouped under two headings: "Access to health-related information through social media" and "Telerehabilitation practices". As a result of the increase in the demand for accessing the information needed in the field of health during the Covid-19 pandemic process, many videos have been published on social media platforms that are open to the access of the entire public. The contents of the videos published for patient education were analyzed and it was concluded that the awareness of questioning the accuracy and reliability of the information accessed in the society should be raised and especially the videos in the field of public health should be audited before they were published. With the prolongation of the stay at home during the Covid-19 pandemic process, telerehabilitation has become a priority option in all areas due to the increased need for access to physiotherapy and rehabilitation applications for both healthy and acute/chronic disease individuals. The findings of the articles examined on the effectiveness of telerehabilitation applications demonstrated that while the education of healthy individuals has focused on maintaining healthy living habits and physical activity level, the education of individuals with acute/chronic diseases has focused on many different topics such as Covid-19 and postcovid symptoms, cardiopulmonary, orthopedic, neurological, women's health, geriatric, pediatric and oncological physiotherapy and rehabilitation. By comparing telerehabilitation with face-to-face applications, the advantages, disadvantages and importance of telerehabilitation, as well as the situations that need to be applied carefully, become clear.


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