Assessing self-reported mood in aphasia following stroke: challenges, innovations and future directions
Journal article
Authors | Barrows, P., Thomas, Shirley A. and Van Gordon, William |
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Abstract | Assessment of mood is critical in determining rehabilitation outcomes for stroke and other acquired brain injury, yet a common consequence of such injuries is aphasia, where language is impaired. Consequently, the use of language-based measures in this population is often not possible. Following a critical review of the neuropsychological aspects of self-reported mood, this paper evaluates the problems in reporting mood after stroke due to aphasia, and discusses implications for the design of adapted instruments. The paper then appraises the construction and psychometric properties of existing, adapted self-report measures developed to try and address these problems, and evaluates their utility and limitations. This includes a focus on the recently validated tablet-based Dynamic Visual Analog Mood Scales (D-VAMS), which uses innovative non-verbal assessment methods based on facial expression modulated via a slider control on a touchscreen interface. Currently, most studies evaluating recovery interventions simply omit individuals with aphasia because of the difficulty of assessing mood and quality of life in this population. However, adapted scales such as the D-VAMS appear to represent an important step forward in assessing mood in people with language impairments, with the use of interactive modulated imagery having wider applications for nonverbal communication as well as the quantification of subjective phenomena. |
Keywords | Surgery; Rehabilitation; Clinical Neurology; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases |
Journal citation | 30 (1), p. 105425 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV |
ISSN | 1052-3057 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105425 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625552 |
https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ | |
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
hdl:10545/625552 | |
Publication dates | 05 Nov 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 Jan 2021, 12:13 |
Accepted | 21 Oct 2020 |
Rights | CC0 1.0 Universal |
Contributors | University of Nottingham and University of Derby |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/937yx/assessing-self-reported-mood-in-aphasia-following-stroke-challenges-innovations-and-future-directions
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