Article

We explored patients' perspectives on home exercise programmes (HEPs)
and their experiences using a mobile application designed to facilitate home
exercise. Method: Data were generated using qualitative, semi-structured,
face-to-face interviews with 10 participants who were receiving outpatient
physiotherapy. Results: Establishing a therapeutic partnership between
physiotherapists and patients enabled therapists to customize the HEPs to the
patients' lifestyles and preferences. Analysis suggests that using the mobile
application improved participants' ability to integrate the HEP into their daily
life and was overwhelmingly preferred to traditional paper handouts. Conclusions:
The results suggest that efforts to engage patients in HEPs need to take their
daily lives into account. To move in this direction, sample exercise prescription
questions are offered. Mobile applications do not replace the clinical encounter,
but they can be an effective tool and an extension of delivering personalized
HEPs in an existing therapeutic partnership.

Langue : ANGLAIS