Determining Evidence for Family Caregiver Communication: Associating Communication Behaviors With Breakdown and Repair.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Communication is fundamental for dementia care. The trouble source repair (TSR) framework can identify strategies that facilitate or impede communication in dyadic interactions.

Research design and methods

A secondary analysis of videos (N = 221) from a clinical trial of a family caregiver telehealth intervention was analyzed using sequential behavioral coding of communication behaviors and breakdowns for 53 caregiver and person with dementia dyads. Coded data from 3,642 30-s observations were analyzed using penalized regression for feature selection followed by Bayesian mixed-effects modeling to identify communication strategies associated with communication breakdown and repair.

Results

Breakdown (coded as 0) was associated with caregivers

SUBMITTER: Williams KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10474591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature