Telemedicine delivery of patient education in remote Ontario communities: feasibility of an Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC)-led inflammatory arthritis education program

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Table 1 Feedback form content: Prescription for Education (RxEd) telemedicine post-session reflection sheet for faculty

Demographics
1. Session date
2. Site
Open-ended comments
1. Quality of the videoconference – consider technical issues such as ability to hear presenter, hear discussion between participants at different sites, ability to see who was speaking at remote sites, and ability to see the slides
2. Interaction between sites – Was there adequate facilitation? How could it be improved?
3. Small group learning/activities – Was your group able to accomplish the task? Do you have any comments about: content of the discussion, group dynamics, etc.?
4. Other comments

Table 2 Characteristics of participants by group

Patient characteristics	Remote (n=87)	In-person (n=36)	P-value*
Age (years)	58.58 (13.26)	56.80 (13.09)	0.56
Sex (female)	76 (87.4%)	22 (91.7%)	0.56
Education level
Primary/elementary school or less	2 (2.3%)	0	0.50
Secondary school	33 (38.4%)	9 (39.1%)
Postsecondary school	45 (52.3%)	14 (60.9%)
Respondent unsure	6 (7.0%)	0
Living arrangements
Alone	18 (21.2%)	8 (33.3%)	0.22
With one person or more	67 (78.8%)	16 (66.7%)
Diagnosis
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)	52 (74.3%)	18 (75.0%)	0.19
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA)	6 (8.6%)	3 (12.5%)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)	1 (1.4%)	2 (8.3%)
Gout	2 (2.9%)	1 (4.2%)
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-related arthritis	1 (1.4%)	0 (0%)
RA + (PsA or SLE or IBD)	8 (11.4%)	0 (0%)
Disease duration (years)	7.92 (11.15)	11.57 (13.59)	0.18
RADAI score
(0 to 10, 10 = greater disease activity)	4.67 (1.82)	4.35 (1.77)	0.46
HAQ 8-item disability score	0.62 (0.38)	0.57 (0.46)	0.59
(0–3, 3 = greater disability)

Notes: Categorical data: frequency (%); continuous data: mean (standard deviation).

* P: differences across groups (χ² tests for categorical variables and ANOVA for continuous variables).

Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; HAQ, Health Assessment Questionnaire; RADAI, rapid assessment of disease activity index.

Figure 1 Remote participants’ perception of videoconferencing.