Telehealth Health, Medicine, Nursing Thesis Proposal

The Theoretical Foundation section of a research study is often one of the most challenging components to create. It is informed by the historical context as described in the Background to the Problem section. In this assignment, you will connect the Background to the Problem with theories, models, and concepts to develop the Theoretical Foundation for your research study.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
Refer to the Background to the Problem that you submitted as your response to the first discussion question in Topic 5.
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Directions:
Locate the Background to the Problem that you submitted as your response to the first discussion question in Topic 5.
Write a draft (750-1,000 words) of the Theoretical Foundation (a theory, model, law, or concept underpinning the study) for your research study. The draft should include the following:
The study's problem statement resulting from the defined need or gap. This can be taken from the Background to the Problem section that you drafted earlier.
A definition and description of each of the theories, models, laws, or concepts that will be the basis for the Theoretical Foundation of the study. Support these ideas with seminal sources.
The phenomena and research questions (qualitative studies) or the variables and hypotheses (quantitative studies) for the study.
A discussion of how the theory, model, law, or concept undergirds and connects to the research study.
My theoretical foundation is that telehealth services offer an enhanced solution to stemming the spread of Covid-19.

Part of the Background to the Problem section of Chapter 2 highlights the historic context of the problem under study. Discuss the problem for your dissertation study. What are the key elements that provide the historic context to the study? How does the research literature create or support that historic context?

The supported findings to use telehealth in remote patient monitoring to broader access of quality care. First, telehealth systems need to adopt user-friendly features to encourage providers and clinics to use these types of services to embrace the technology. An elaborate system in the past has made it difficult to implement usage and discouraged investors, providers, and technical support to implement the services. Second, telehealth boosted health outcomes, there are many options to telehealth which do not require a video conferencing. Telehealth is a flexible and evidence-based method for clinical service delivery known to reduce treatment barriers, increase access to care, yield outcomes comparable to those for in-person interventions, and promote treatment attendance and high patient satisfaction (Glynn, Chen, Dawson, Gelman, & Zeliadt, 2020). Partial options were suggested to use the regular phone service to suppress an option of telehealth on top of the high technology available. Findings from the articles showed that the integration of telehealth interventions were positively related to an increase in patient satisfaction, direct health care if needed and saved the time an effort if basic needs were only required. Many patients' expectations were met when telehealth was used. Third, the studies revealed that a strong management structure was vital in building a successful telehealth model

    With a global pandemic placed in many of these scenarios telehealth systems that had more robust management saw better levels of co-operation and co-ordination between the various units. Preventative care was given a whole new meaning and telehealth forced its way into the limelight as one of the major key components to patient and provider safety. Benefits of telehealth included increased patient access to pain services, convenience, reduced travel costs, greater accessibility, increased safety, and coordinated care (Bjørkquist, Forss, & Samuelsen, 2019).

References:

Arkwright, B. T., Leslie, M., & Light, M. (2019). Telehealth Finance Variables and Successful Business Models. Telehealth and Medicine Today.

Bjørkquist, C., Forss, M., & Samuelsen, F. (2019). Collaborative challenges in the use of telecare. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 33(1), 93–101.

Glynn, L. H., Chen, J. A., Dawson, T. C., Gelman, H., & Zeliadt, S. B. (2020). Bringing chronic-pain care to rural veterans: A telehealth pilot program description. Psychological Services.

Kruse, C., et al. (2017). Telehealth and patient satisfaction: a systematic review and narrative analysis. BMJ Open, 7(8), e016242, https://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmjopen-2017-016242

Martens, B. K., Baxter, E. L., McComas, J. J., Sallade, S. J., Kester, J. S., Caamano, M., Dimian, A., Simacek, J., & Pennington, B. (2019). Agreement between structured descriptive assessments and functional analyses conducted over a telehealth system. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 19(4), 343–356.

Totten, M., et al. (2016). Telehealth: Mapping the evidence for patient outcomes from systematic reviews. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US.