Adoption
COPD
COPD, RECRUITMENT
Adoption measures the proportion of people/settings who were willing to initiate the intervention. Because the intervention was in participants’ homes, the proportion of people who initiated TelePR sessions in their homes is the relevant metric for adoption and for describing barriers to adoption. In addition, we report the proportion of community centers that were willing to ‘house’ the TelePR sessions for participants who did not have space for equipment in their homes.To increase adoption, we held meetings twice a year (estimated 10 meetings) with local clinicians informing them about the TelePR program - within the context of the clinical trial - including an email communication across the entire Northwell Health System by the chair of medicine, and presentations at division meetings. We worked with our CAB to identify methods to increase referral by hospital staff (physicians and respiratory therapists) for potentially eligible patients, and to increase adoption by the COPD patients and their families once approached by the study team. These meetings informed our recruitment materials targeted specifically to people from predominantly underserved Hispanic and African American people with COPD in the NYC metropolitan region. Details are provided in a separate manuscript [