Symposium

Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine

Cross-Cutting

Pragmatic Considerations for Designing, Recruitment and Conducting Scale-Up Rural Telehealth Interventions for People with Physical Disabilities (855182)

Presenter(s)

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  Jereme D. Wilroy, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  Mohanraj Thirumalai, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Birmingham, Alabama

  Presentation Slides
• TM

  Tapan Mehta, PhD

  Associate Professor and Director of Research (of Dept. of HSA)
  Department of Health Services Administration and UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative
  Birmingham, Alabama

This symposia provides a broad pragmatic view on designing, recruitment, and conducting scale-up rural telehealth interventions for people with physical disabilities. Specifically, lessons learned from two large studies in the Deep South will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participant will be able to understand the design of telehealth technology for rural populations.
• Understand the recruitment techniques for scale-up studies
• Upon completion, participant will be able to understand the various research design issues around scale-up studies and how to introduce effectiveness.