“Much better than I thought it was going to be”: Telehealth delivered group-based education and exercise was perceived as acceptable among people with knee osteoarthritis

Exercise-Based Interventions for the Presurgical Management of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Rapid Qualitative Review

“…Of the 16 included studies, all were qualitative studies� [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] The authors of 5 studies reported specific qualitative methodologies underpinning their studies, including Batista et al� 25 and Wallis et al� 39 using phenomenological approaches; Ezzat et al 27 using interpretive description; Leese et al 32 using supraanalysis; and Yeh et al 40 using a qualitative description approach� Of the remaining 11 studies, the authors reported methods of data collection and analysis but did not specify an overarching methodology informing these methods�…”

“…The authors of 15 studies analyzed data obtained through semistructured interviews, [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][36][37][38][39][40] and the authors of 1 study collected data using focus groups� 35 For their analytical approach, the authors of 7 studies reported using thematic analysis, 27,29,30,34,36,37,39 2 used a form of qualitative content analysis, 35,40 and 1 used methods borrowed from both thematic analysis and content analysis� 25 The authors of 1 study reported using systematic text condensation 26 and the authors of 1 study reported using phenomenographic analysis� 32 Additionally, the authors of 3 studies used analytical methods informed by grounded theory approaches, 28,31,38 and the authors of 1 study used methods borrowed from thematic analysis, constructivist grounded theory, and longitudinal qualitative analysis� 33…”

“…Seven of the studies were conducted in Australia, 27,29,30,34,36,37,39 2 in Sweden, 26,35 and 1 each in Canada, 32 the UK, 33 the Netherlands, 28 Italy, 25 Japan, 38 and Taiwan� 40 The authors of 1 study were affiliated with an institution in the US, although they did not explicitly report whether they conducted their study in this country� 31…”

“…The authors of 5 studies recruited participants from both urban or metropolitan and suburban or regional settings, 25,29,34,37,38 and the authors of 3 studies recruited exclusively from major urban or metropolitan locations� 30,32,39 The authors of 3 studies reported the regions, states, or provinces they sampled from, but did not provide information about the rurality of their sample� 26,33,35,36 Yeh et al 40 reported recruiting from "one medical center and two regional hospitals" in northwestern Taiwan. Finally, the authors of 3 studies neither explicitly reported a region they recruited from nor the rurality of their sample� 27,28,31 Most of the authors had recruited their participants from clinical trials or randomized control trials investigating exercise-based interventions for managing knee and/or hip OA� [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]39 The studies included a combined total of 392 people living with knee OA, including 3 people living with hip and knee OA� Three studies also included a combined total of 22 people reporting their hip as the joint primarily affected by OA� 25,26,35 Additionally, Knoop et al� 28 included physiotherapists (n = 11) and dieticians (n = 5), and Lawford et al 30 included physical therapists (n = 7) in their samples. Sample sizes ranged from 9 38 to 118 40 participants�…”

“…The authors of the included citations reported that 272 (65�7%) of the combined total of 414 study participants living with knee and/or hip OA identified as female or as women. The reported ages of participants ranged from 40 to 89 years� [25][26][27][28][29][30]32,34,[36][37][38][39][40] The authors of 1 study only reported including participants aged 45 years to 75 years or older� 33 Only Ledingham et al� 31 reported the race or ethnicity of their participants, of which 9 were Black (36%), 12 were white (48%), and 4 were other unspecified races or ethnicities (16%).…”