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标题：Memory Deficits for Health Information Provided Through a Telehealth Video Conferencing System
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作者：Zendel, Benjamin Rich ; Power, Bethany Victoria ; DiDonato, Roberta Maria 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
页码：840
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2021.604074
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：It is critical to remember details about meetings with healthcare providers. Forgetting could result in inadequate knowledge about ones’ health, non-adherence with treatments, and poorer health outcomes. Hearing the health care provider plays a crucial role in consolidating information for recall. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has meant a rapid transition to videoconference-based medicine, here described as telehealth. When using telehealth speech must be filtered and compressed, and research has shown that degraded speech is more challenging to remember. Here we present preliminary results from a study that examined memory for health information provided in-person or through telehealth. The data collection for this study was stopped due to the pandemic, but the preliminary results are interesting because the pandemic forced a rapid transition to telehealth. To examine a potential memory deficit for health information provided through telehealth, we presented older and younger adults with instructions on how to use two medical devices. One set of instructions was presented in-person, and the other through telehealth. Participants were asked to recall the instructions immediately after the session, and again after a 1-week delay. Overall, the number of details recalled was significantly lower when instructions were provided by telehealth, both immediately after the session and after a 1-week delay. It is likely that a mix of technological and communication strategies by the healthcare provider could reduce this telehealth memory deficit. Given the rapid transition to telehealth due to COVID-19, highlighting this deficit and providing potential solutions are timely and of utmost importance.
关键词：telehealth; Memory; Hearing; healthcare delivery; Aging