Exploring the association between social determinants and aphasia impairment: A retrospective data integration approach.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Traditionally, the study of aphasia focused on brain trauma, clinical biomarkers, and cognitive processes, rarely considering the social determinants of health. This study evaluates the relationship between aphasia impairment and demographic, socioeconomic, and contextual determinants among people with aphasia (PWA).

Methods

PWA indexed within AphasiaBank-a database populated by multiple clinical aphasiology centers with standardized protocols characterizing language, neuropsychological functioning, and demographic information-were matched with respondents in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey based on response year, age, sex, race, ethnicity, time post stroke, and mental health status. Generalized log-linear regression models with bootstrapped standard errors

SUBMITTER: Jacobs M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10956803 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature