My Hip Journey : A virtual program for patients undergoing a total hip replacement

The virtual program developed for total hip replacements has been designed to inform patients, support persons and relatives what to expect pre-operatively, while in hospital, post operatively and after discharge. Participants access the virtual program via a web link through the ‘My Hip Journey – Go Well Health’. It was designed to give access to information without the patient having to come to the hospital and at a time that suits them 24/7 and it is anticipated that participants use the program on a daily basis commencing two week prior to surgery through until 30 days post-surgery, however they have access to the program up to 12 months post-surgery. The program provides a suite of educational resources including fact sheets, videos, exercise videos and email reminders. The resources change as the patient progress through the program with focus on personal wellbeing and the importance of this in the pre-operative and post-operative periods some example include eating a well-balanced diet, continuing to exercise without increasing pain, medication management and bowel management. Each day the patient home screen when they login is their My Program window lists the videos, information and exercises that have been allocated for them to view/complete that day. Exercises are listed with number of sets and repetitions that the patient is required to do. Participants have access to the health professional team via the program email for 4 weeks post discharge, and can also invite their regular health care providers and/or support person to be part of the team. The health professional team can personalised the participants program and exercises by adding in number of sets and reps for each exercise. Intervention fidelity will be assess using the website site analytics. After a participants watches a video or reads information they rate the information, the program marks it as read and provides information on how long the participant spent on that piece of information. Additionally, the exercise videos are marked completed by the participant once done. Automatically generated emails with the program are sent to the participants on a regular basis to inform participants of the information available on the platform. The professional care team have access to the platform and can view the website analytics for each participant.