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Background/Objectives: Telehealth through videoconferencing has the potential to improve the lives of the elderly. Unfortunately, little is known on its health benefits in the physical and quality of life dimensions among seniors. The aim of this paper is to compare videoconferencing as a mode of telehealth with traditional healthcare delivery in the contexts of functional independence and Quality of Life (QoL) measures using a non-equivalent control group before-after quasi experimental design. Methods/Statistical analysis: One-hundred forty seniors from a rural area were purposively selected and distributed to the telehealth (n=82) and traditional (n=58) groups. SF-8 and Functional Independence Measure (FIM) were used to gather the needed data from the participants before and after exposure to the interventions. Findings: Results of t-tests indicate significant improvement in QoL of the two groups of subjects on both telehealth and traditional groups, while FIM measures exhibited no significant change among the telehealth group. Improvements/Applications: On the whole, study findings promote a more personal delivery of healthcare among the elderly, and challenges the health practitioners and policy makers to recognize the pragmatic worth of and improve telehealth as a complementary healthcare tool for traditional consultation in enhancing QoL among seniors. Impliedly, more researches with extended number of subjects and locale is needed to come up with a more generalizable result.

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Abstract
I. INTRODUCTION
II. RESEARCH METHOD
A. Research Design
B. Study Sites and Subjects
C. Instrumentation and DataCollection.
D. Data Analysis
III. RESULTS
A. Respondents’ Profile
B. Comparative Statistics in the Functional Independence (FI) and Quality of Life (QoL) of Telehealth and Control Groups
C. Comparative Statistics of the Pretests and Posttest Results on Functional Independence and Quality of Life (QoL)
D. Comparative Statistics in the Posttest Results on Functional Independence and Quality of Life (QoL)
IV. DISCUSSION
A. Comparative Statistics in the Functional Independence (FIM) and Quality of Life (QoL) of Telehealth and Control Groups
B. Comparative Statistics of the Pretests and Posttest Results on Functional Independence and Quality of Life (QoL)
C. Comparative Statistics in the Posttest Results on Functional Independence and Quality of Life (QoL)
V. CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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저자

• Michael Joseph S. Diño [ Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines ] Corresponding Author
• MAN, RN, LPT [ Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines, Research Development and Innovation Center ]
• Irvin L. Ong [ Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines ]
• EdD, MHPEd, LPT [ Our Lady of Fatima University, Valenzuela City, Philippines, Research Development and Innovation Center ]

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• 간행물명

  IJBSA

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  계간

• pISSN

  2619-8363

• 수록기간

  2019~2022

• 십진분류

  KDC 327 DDC 332