Poststroke Communication Ability Predicts Patient-Informant Discrepancies in Reported Activities and Participation

DISCUSSION: These findings highlight the importance of measuring participation by PROM. The PWA's experience of participation is not related to their level of language impairment and is predictably different from their care partners' perspective. As others have also reported, "mild" aphasia is not so mild to the PWA. Similarly, "severe" may not be so severe to the PWA. Further research is needed to connect these findings with counseling and caregiver education. Research on response processes (e.g., response shift) is also warranted.PMID:38625105 | DOI:10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00322
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research