PERCEPTION OF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS ABOUT TELEREHABILITATION IN URINARY INCONTINENCE
Telemedicine; Telemonitoring; Women's Health; urinary Incontinence
INTRODUCTION: Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as the involuntary loss of urine and physical therapy is considered the first-line treatment. During the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, there was a need to implement remote care by physical therapists, however, there are few studies that evaluated the perception of Brazilian physical therapists in relation to remote care for UI. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the perception of Brazilian physical therapists with remote care and the adherence of the patients to this modality of treatment. METHODS: Cross-sectional observational study. Performed between March 2021 and November 2021, with one questionnaire available on Google Forms with the information about: personal and demographic of physical therapist data; Perception of the physical therapist about telerehabilitation and the adherence of the patients to this treatment modality; new resources and acquisition of equipment to perform the telerehabilitation. Most of the questions were objectives or with the 5-point Likert scale. RESULTS: It was observed that during the period of the pandemic, all physical therapy (100%) performed the telerehabilitation. During social isolation, 63.15% reported that performed the treatment of patients that residing in other regions of Brazil and 40.78% residing in other countries. RESULTS: It was observed that during the period of the pandemic, all physical therapy (100%) performed the telerehabilitation. During social isolation, 63.15% reported that performed the treatment of patients that residing in other regions of Brazil and 40.78% residing in other countries. The most of the patients (82.89%) were able to adapt to telerehabilitation, and had adherence (68.42%) to this treatment modality. Physiotherapists reported that most patients adapted to the remote treatment modality (56.57%), however, the majority still prefer face-to-face care (76.28%%). CONCLUSION: the physiotherapists had the perception that patients preferred the telerehabilitation and there was a good adherence. However, physical therapists reported difficulty to the adapt to this modality treatment.