Introduction To enable greater availability of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), video-conferencing technology was employed to link a community site to a standard outpatient PR service to deliver the programme closer to those with chronic respiratory disease. The service was called virtual pulmonary rehabilitation (VIPAR). To understand the experiences of those involved in this service, this study aimed to answer the question: How do the different stakeholders that interact with VIPAR experience the programme? Methods Focus groups were conducted with people with chronic lung disease attending either the community or outpatient PR site, in addition to the staff involved in the running of the PR groups. A total of five focus groups were conducted. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the transcripts. Results Participants who received VIPAR were positive regarding the programme and described the benefits of the service. Additionally, participants discussed the trade-off between convenience and relatedness. Staff described barriers to the service and solutions that could be employed to mitigate these, including greater training, organisation and understanding of risk. Discussion Using technology to increase the availability of PR is acceptable to the stakeholders involved, providing problems and organisational issues are resolved with training. No data are available. Unfortunately, the authors are unable to provide access to the raw data for this study due to not having the ethical approval to do so. However, the authors will respond to any request for data with as much information as they are able to provide.

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探索虚拟肺康复 (VIPAR) 的利益相关者经验的反思性主题分析

简介 为了提高肺康复 (PR) 的可用性，采用视频会议技术将社区站点与标准的门诊 PR 服务联系起来，从而使该计划更接近慢性呼吸系统疾病患者。该服务被称为虚拟肺康复 (VIPAR)。为了解参与此项服务的人员的体验，本研究旨在回答以下问题：与 VIPAR 互动的不同利益相关者如何体验该计划？方法 除了参与 PR 小组运行的工作人员之外，还对参加社区或门诊 PR 站点的慢性肺病患者进行了焦点小组。总共进行了五个焦点小组。使用自反主题分析来分析成绩单。结果 接受 VIPAR 的参与者对该计划持积极态度，并描述了该服务的好处。此外，参与者还讨论了便利性和相关性之间的权衡。工作人员描述了服务的障碍和可以用来减轻这些障碍的解决方案，包括加强培训、组织和对风险的理解。讨论 所涉及的利益相关者可以接受使用技术来增加 PR 的可用性，前提是问题和组织问题通过培训得到解决。没有可用数据。不幸的是，由于没有获得伦理批准，作者无法提供对这项研究的原始数据的访问。然而，作者将尽可能提供尽可能多的信息来响应任何数据请求。