000010199 001__ 10199 000010199 005__ 20230905152627.0 000010199 022__ $$a0959-3985 000010199 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1080/09593985.2022.2042439 000010199 037__ $$aARTICLE 000010199 039_9 $$a2023-09-05 15:26:27$$b1$$c2023-07-06 13:25:45$$d0$$c2023-07-06 13:25:38$$d1000092$$c2022-10-27 16:29:12$$d1000092$$c2022-06-23 14:56:25$$d0$$c2022-06-23 09:43:19$$d1000069$$c2022-05-09 16:39:05$$d1000092$$y2022-05-09 16:38:59$$z0 000010199 041__ $$aeng 000010199 245__ $$aInvestigating the use of digital health tools in physiotherapy :$$bfacilitators and barriers 000010199 269__ $$a2022-03 000010199 300__ $$a21 p. 000010199 506__ $$avisible 000010199 520__ $$9eng$$aBackground Digital tools are becoming more and more common in healthcare. Their potential to improve treatment, monitoring, and coaching in physiotherapy has been recognized. Yet studies report that the adoption of digital health tools in ambulatory physiotherapy is rather low and that their potential is underexploited. Objective This paper aims to investigate how digital health tools in general, and the mobile health tool physitrackTM (hereafter the app) more particularly, are used in outpatient physiotherapy clinics and also to identify what facilitates or hinders the app’s use. Methods The paper is part of a larger study and adopts an ethnographic approach. It is based on observational and interview data collected at two outpatient clinics. Results We reveal how physiotherapists and patients use the app in physiotherapy and identify 16 interdependent factors, on the macro-, meso-, and micro-level, that either facilitate or hinder its use. Conclusions We argue that a single factor’s facilitating or hindering impact cannot be grasped in isolation but needs to be investigated as one piece of a dynamic interplay. Further qualitative research is required, especially to shed more light on the app’s compatibility with physiotherapy practice and use in therapist-patient interactions. 000010199 540__ $$acorrect 000010199 592__ $$aHESAV 000010199 592__ $$bUnité de recherche en santé, HESAV 000010199 592__ $$cSanté 000010199 592__ $$dPhysiothérapie 000010199 6531_ $$9eng$$amHealth 000010199 6531_ $$9eng$$aeHealth 000010199 6531_ $$9eng$$aambulatory physiotherapy 000010199 6531_ $$9eng$$afacilitators and barriers 000010199 6531_ $$9eng$$aethnographic study 000010199 655__ $$ascientifique 000010199 700__ $$aKeel, Sara$$uHESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland 000010199 700__ $$aSchmid, Anja$$uHESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland 000010199 700__ $$aKeller, Fabienne$$uHESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland 000010199 700__ $$aSchoeb, Veronika$$uHESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland 000010199 773__ $$j2023, Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 1449-1468$$tPhysiotherapy theory and practice 000010199 8564_ $$ypublished version$$9697adb37-de1a-4d64-803c-8bed8ed2c43b$$s2834109$$uhttps://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/10199/files/Keel_2023_investigating_the_use_of_digital_health_tools.pdf 000010199 906__ $$aGOLD 000010199 909CO $$ooai:hesso.tind.io:10199$$pGLOBAL_SET 000010199 950__ $$aSan2 000010199 980__ $$ascientifique 000010199 981__ $$ascientifique