Table 3. Characteristics of extracted data from Included 26 studies .
ANMs: Auxiliary Nurse Midwives; MPHWs: Multi-Purpose Health Workers; ASHAs: Accredited Social Health Activists; PWEs: Persons with Epilepsy
| AUTHOR & YEAR | LOCATION OF STUDY | STUDY DESIGN | STUDY POPULATION | SAMPLE SIZE |
| (Joshi et al. 2021) | Rajasthan, India | Exploratory study | Pregnant Women and Female Children, General Population, Health Department Employees, Community Health Workers, Patients and Healthcare Consumers | Not Specified |
| (M. Singh et al. 2023) | Uttar Pradesh, India | Exploratory-descriptive qualitative study | Nodal officers, doctors, and patients accessing telemedicine services at 13 newly established telemedicine centres in Uttar Pradesh, India. | 13 Nodal officers, 20 doctors, and 20 patients, totalling 53 participants |
| (Raheja and Pani, n.d.) | India | Qualitative study | Doctors practicing in various healthcare settings throughout India | 40 Doctors |
| (Manglani et al. 2022) | Maharashtra, India. | Qualitative study | Children aged 1 to 17 years living with HIV/AIDS, their caregivers, medical officers, counsellors, and pharmacists. | 48 Caregivers and 18 medical officers, counsellors, and pharmacists |
| (Joseph et al. 2022) | Odisha, India | Qualitative study | Parents of children with perioperative surgical care needs | 26 Parents |
| (Dahake et al. 2023) | Nagpur, India | Descriptive qualitative study | Caregivers of children with developmental disabilities under regular follow-up | 8 Caregivers of children with cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorder, global developmental delay, and specific learning disability |
| (Ghosh et al. 2023) | Chandigarh, India | Qualitative study | Adult patients with substance use disorders (SUD) | 15 adult patients with SUD who accessed both telemedicine and in-person care |
| (Verma et al. 2022) | Chandigarh, India | Observational study with an analytic survey design | Patients with hepatobiliary disorders aged 18 years or older who availed tele-hepatology services. | 1,419 registrations, 1,281 completed consultations, and 210 randomly surveyed patients responded |
| (Gupta et al. 2023) | Jodhpur, Rajasthan | Cross-sectional study | Clinicians provide teleconsultations, and patients receive teleconsultations from the hospital's Outpatient Departments. | 52 clinicians and 134 patients |
| (Ghosh et al. 2021) | Chandigarh, India | Descriptive study | Patients with substance use disorders | 198 Patients |
| (Sahu et al. 2020) | India | Cross-sectional study | Healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, counsellors) | 153 HCPs |
| (Rao et al. 2021) | Bengaluru, India | Descriptive study | Patients with genetic disorders or at risk of genetic disorders seeking tela-genetics consultation | 539 Families |
| (Adhikari et al. 2021) | North India | Retrospective observational study | Follow-up cancer patients utilizing palliative medicine teleconsultation services | 547 Patients |
| (M. Raj et al. 2022) | Jharkhand, India | Single-centre, cross-sectional, observational study | Patients availing teleconsultations services during the COVID-19 pandemic | 758 Patients |
| (A. Singh et al. 2021) | Chhattisgarh, India | Cross-sectional study | Faculty members of tertiary-care teaching hospitals | 115 Respondents |
| (Gandhi P, Kathirvel, and Chakraborty 2022) | Chandigarh, India | Cross-sectional study | ANMs, MPHWs, and ASHAs working in the study health block | 80 Community health workers (ANMs, MPHWs, and ASHAs) |
| (Saxena et al. 2022) | Rishikesh, India | Facility-based cross-sectional study | Patients availing telemedicine consultation services during the COVID-19 pandemic | 5,278 Patients |
| (Ravindran et al. 2020) | Bangalore, India | Descriptive study | General public affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. | Not Specified |
| (Nair et al. 2021) | Southern India, Tamil Nadu | Descriptive study | Persons with epilepsy (PWEs) aged 18 years and above, who have been evaluated in person within the past six months, with details available in electronic health records (EHRs), and advised regular follow-up after getting telephonic consent | Out of 336 PWE, only 141 PWE video consultation was done |
| (Ramanadhan et al. 2022) | Gujarat, India | Mixed-method study | Residents of Tuver village and surrounding areas. | 94 Villages |
| (Rasekaba et al. 2022) | Karnataka, India | Mixed-method cross-sectional study | Older adults over 65 years residing in rural settings within the catchment area of JSS Hospital | 150 Participants |
| (Mondal et al. 2023) | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | Descriptive record-based Mixed-method cross-sectional study | Users of 'Swasthya Ingit' services | Quantitative Component-data of 6775 received calls, Qualitative Component- Purposive sampling, 6 in-depth interviews (IDI) with Community Health Officers (CHO) and 5 IDIs with medical officers |
| (Nagaraja et al. 2024) | India | Cross-sectional internet-based survey (mix method) | Physicians in India | Quantitative Component-444 physicians And Qualitative Component-115 physicians |
| (Agarwal and Biswas 2020) | India | Cross-sectional, observational, web-based study | Physicians and users of mobile health applications in India | 22 Mobile health applications operating in India |
| (Santhosh et al. 2019) | Bengaluru, India | Case Series | Three patients with tobacco addiction | 3 Patients |
| (D. Raj and T K 2021) | Jharkhand, India. | Mixed-method study | Rural citizens, doctors in primary healthcare centres, community health workers | Not Specified |