What Impacts What: Clinicians' Perspectives of Causality in Aphasia Rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Determining the prognosis of aphasia recovery is an important task for clinicians in the rehabilitation of persons with aphasia. Although there are many variables identified as impactful to aphasia recovery, it is less clear (a) how clinicians perceive causality in aphasia rehabilitation and (b) how prognostic variables interact with each other. This study aimed to understand causal relations between prognostic variables from the clinician perspective.

Method

Ratings of perceived causality were obtained from 11 clinicians serving people with aphasia. Participants were presented with 255 directed causal relations (e.g., depression → aphasia severity), representing a total of 18 demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial variables. Participants rated the perceived causa

SUBMITTER: Castro N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11546980 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature