Date of Completion

5-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy

Keywords

telerehabilitation

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the perception of OT practitioners and to identify the most influential factor/s that affect their perception towards telerehabilitation. An adapted self-administered questionnaire validated by local experts in telerehabilitation was disseminated from April 20- May 7 in different occupational therapy group and organizations. Licensed OTs working in NCR and/or in CALABARZON (N=33) were sampled. The main outcome of the study was to identify the perception of occupational therapists towards telerehabilitation in terms of human, technical and organizational factors. The respondents have a mean age of 22-28 years old were mostly female (78.8%) with at least 1 year of telerehabilitation practice and mostly practicing in private clinics (84.8%). Majority of the participants have positive perception in terms of their overall knowledge, skills and confidence in using telerehabilitation and its continuity during the pandemic. Under human factors, the “limited manual examination in virtual consultation” had the yielded the highest mean under this factor. Meanwhile, “no standardized professional schemes and payment schemes” under the organizational factor obtained the highest mean. Lastly, majority of the participants identified that “unreliable internet” was considered to be “very influential” as this obtained the highest mean under this factor. Overall, human, organizational factors were concluded to be influential in the perception of occupational therapist towards telerehabilitation. Technical factor was determined to be the most influential to the perception of OTs towards telerehabilitation. Their perceptions could be used in formulating local guidelines and strategies to improve the conduct of telerehabilitation in the country.

First Advisor

Mariko A. Sasai

Second Advisor

Shane Marie Landicho

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