Telehealth Adoption in Remote Cameroon Communities: User Engagement and Outpatient Visit Reduction Study

Telehealth services have begun to address healthcare access challenges in remote areas of Cameroon where traditional healthcare facilities are scarce. A mixed-methods approach involving surveys, interviews, and observational studies was employed to gather data from 120 participants in three remote Cameroon villages. Users reported high satisfaction with service availability (85% on a Likert scale) and observed a significant reduction of 43% in outpatient visits after implementing telehealth solutions. Telehealth adoption showed promise for improving healthcare access without increasing the number of physical clinic visits. Further randomized controlled trials are recommended to validate these findings and explore scalability across Cameroon's diverse rural settings. telehealth, remote communities, user engagement, outpatient visit reduction Model estimation used =argmin_ᵢ (yᵢ, f_ (xᵢ) ) +₂², with performance evaluated using out-of-sample error.