Table 4.
Selected feedback received from participating sites.
| Domain | Question |
|---|---|
| Use | Support COVID+ patients |
| Provide safe alternative to exercise when social distancing recommendations are in place | |
| Supplement scheduled STRIDE walks | |
| Provide additional support upon discharge | |
| Recruiting patients | Able to ambulate independently |
| Able to transfer independently | |
| Cognitively intact | |
| High motivation | |
| Patients who may use the kit upon discharge | |
| Introducing the kit to patients | Explain components of kit, demonstrate exercises |
| Kit components used most frequently | Exercise equipment (TheraBand, foam block) |
| Exercise booklet | |
| Successes | STRIDE staff and patients both appreciated the kits |
| Kits left with physical therapists (PTs) on COVID unit | |
| STRIDE PTs instructed other facility PTs on how to use SiYR kits | |
| Challenges | Some patients are too frail to exercise independently |
| Higher functioning patients may benefit from more exercises and/or more difficult exercises | |
| Pedometers were difficult for older patients (e.g., text size too small) | |
| Low patient compliance after kit was issued | |
| Exercise log may be overwhelming for some patients | |
| Suggestions for improvement | Guidance on documentation |
| Guided exercises for TheraBand and foam block | |
| More variability in exercises (i.e., option to adapt exercises to patient’s functional abilities) | |
| Documentation | Distribution of kits tracked in external spreadsheet |
| Progress note entered into patient medical record |