Examining dose frameworks to improve aphasia rehabilitation research

The effect of treatment dose on recovery of post-stroke aphasia is not well understood. Inconsistent conceptualisation, measurement, and reporting of the multiple dimensions of dose hinders efforts to evaluate dose-response relationships in aphasia rehabilitation research. We review the state of dose conceptualisation in aphasia rehabilitation and compare the applicability of three existing dose frameworks to aphasia rehabilitation research – the Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type principle (FITT), the Cumulative Intervention Intensity (CII) framework, and the Multidimensional Dose Articulation Framework (MDAF).

Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - December 23, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Sam Harvey, Miranda L. Rose, Emily Brogan, John E. Pierce, Erin Godecke, Sonia L.E. Brownsett, Leonid Churilov, David Copland, Michael Walsh Dickey, Jade Dignam, Natasha A. Lannin, Lyndsey Nickels, Julie Bernhardt, Kathryn S Hayward Tags: Special Communication Source Type: research