A Brief Intervention to Support Implementation of Telerehabilitation by Community Rehabilitation Services During COVID-19: A Feasibility Study.

Only 31 clinicians completed the baseline questionnaire and 26 completed the follow-up questionnaire. The clinicians came from private practices in three Australian cities and were mostly physiotherapists, so results may not apply to other settings or professions. The same clinicians were measured before and after the program, so pandemic service pressures and the program cannot be separated. The program combined weekly videoconferencing education, recorded sessions, a resource repository, and clinician superuser accounts, so the contribution of any single component cannot be separated. The outcome was self-reported clinician questionnaire and practice use, not patient outcomes or measured competence in assessing patient and environment safety. The intervention was brief and delivered during early COVID-19 restrictions, so sustainability and general effect are unclear. Patient internet access, interest, skills, and safety were not assessed.

Do not read the increase in telerehabilitation use as proof that clinicians' perceived barriers improved. The questionnaire responses did not change, and the same clinicians were measured before and after the program, so pandemic service pressures cannot be separated from the program.