TY - JOUR
T1 - A qualitative exploration of cardiovascular disease patients’ views and experiences with an eHealth cardiac rehabilitation intervention
T2 - The PATHway Project
AU - O’Shea, Orlagh
AU - Woods, Catherine
AU - McDermott, Lauri
AU - Buys, Roselien
AU - Cornelis, Nils
AU - Claes, Jomme
AU - Cornelissen, Véronique
AU - Gallagher, Anne
AU - Newton, Helen
AU - Moyna, Niall
AU - McCaffrey, Noel
AU - Susta, Davide
AU - McDermott, Clare
AU - McCormack, Ciara
AU - Budts, Werner
AU - Moran, Kieran
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 O’Shea et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - The aim of this study is to explore participants’ views and experiences of an eHealth phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation (CR) intervention: Physical Activity Towards Health (PATHway). Sixty participants took part in the PATHway intervention. Debriefs were conducted after the six-month intervention. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed with Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Forty-four (71%) debriefs were conducted (n = 34 male, mean (SD) age 61 (10) years). Five key themes were identified: (1) Feedback on the components of the PATHway system, (2) Motivation, (3) Barriers to using PATHway, (4) Enablers to using PATHway, and (5) Post programme reflection. There were a number of subthemes within each theme, for example motivation explores participants motivation to take part in PATHway and participants motivation to sustain engagement with PATHway throughout the intervention period. Participant engagement with the components of the PATHway system was variable. Future research should focus on optimising participant familiarisation with eHealth systems and employ an iterative approach to development and evaluation.
AB - The aim of this study is to explore participants’ views and experiences of an eHealth phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation (CR) intervention: Physical Activity Towards Health (PATHway). Sixty participants took part in the PATHway intervention. Debriefs were conducted after the six-month intervention. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were analysed with Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Forty-four (71%) debriefs were conducted (n = 34 male, mean (SD) age 61 (10) years). Five key themes were identified: (1) Feedback on the components of the PATHway system, (2) Motivation, (3) Barriers to using PATHway, (4) Enablers to using PATHway, and (5) Post programme reflection. There were a number of subthemes within each theme, for example motivation explores participants motivation to take part in PATHway and participants motivation to sustain engagement with PATHway throughout the intervention period. Participant engagement with the components of the PATHway system was variable. Future research should focus on optimising participant familiarisation with eHealth systems and employ an iterative approach to development and evaluation.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0235274
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0235274
M3 - Article
C2 - 32628688
AN - SCOPUS:85087737441
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 15
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 7
M1 - e0235274
ER -
