Communication outcome after stroke: a new measure of the carer’s perspective
| Autor: | Audrey Bowen, Andrew F. Long, Anne Hesketh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Severity of Illness Index Dysarthria Quality of life (healthcare) Aphasia Severity of illness medicine Humans Stroke Aged Aged 80 and over Rehabilitation Perspective (graphical) Stroke Rehabilitation Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Caregivers Scale (social sciences) Quality of Life Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Rehabilitation. 23:846-856 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0873 0269-2155 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0269215509336055 |
| Popis: | Objective: To validate a measure of the carer’s perspective of a stroke survivor’s communication in everyday life. Design: Cross-sectional, interview-based, psychometric study. Setting: A community sample from the northwest of England, UK. Subjects: Fifty-eight carers and 58 stroke survivors with communication problems (aphasia and/or dysarthria) following a stroke within the previous 4—12 months. Interventions: Administration of the 20-item Carer Communication Outcome after Stroke (Carer COAST) scale, on two occasions, within a two-week period; the 15-item Carers of Older People in Europe (COPE) Index, the patient Communication Outcome after Stroke (COAST) Scale, and collection of demographic and other data relating to the stroke survivor’s disability (Barthel Index), degree of aphasia (Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test) and hospital diagnosis of aphasia/dysarthria. Main measures: Acceptability (missing values), reliability (internal consistency and test—retest reliability) and construct validity. Results: Carer COAST showed good acceptability (no incomplete items, sample spread 24—100%), internal consistency and test—retest reliability for the scale (a = 0.94; intraclass correlation (ICC) = 0.91) and its subscales (a = 0.78—0.90; ICC = 0.75—0.87), and indicative evidence on construct validity (Carer COAST, COPE subscales and COAST). There were statistically significant correlations between the communication items of Carer COAST and the negative impact of caregiving (rs = —0.29) and the financial difficulties of caregiving (rs = —0.38). Conclusions: The Carer COAST scale has considerable potential as a reliable and valid measure of the carer’s perspective on the communication effectiveness of stroke survivors. Intercorrelations with COPE provide specific evidence of the impact of caring for a person with communication difficulties following a stroke. |
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