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. 2023 Mar 13;25:e43684. doi: 10.2196/43684

Table 2.

Description of descriptive themes and analytical themes.

Descriptive themes Analytical themes
  • Technology endorsed access to health care professional support at home

  • Feasible, acceptable, and useful technology

  • Potential for a support system and self-governance at home

  • Building relationships and connections over time using video conferences

  • Understanding symptoms and circumstances remotely using video conferences

  • Visibility supports interpersonal relationships and a joint understanding of care needs

  • Self-reporting enables management of symptoms and concerns throughout the illness trajectory

  • Adjusting treatment according to patients’ symptoms and concerns

  • Optimized information flow facilitates tailoring of remote caring practices

  • Barriers to technology use

  • Challenges with interpersonal relationships due to virtual communication

  • Difficulties summarizing complex symptoms and concerns

  • Technology, relationships, and complexity as perpetual obstacles in telehealth