Feasibility of Automating Fidelity Monitoring in a Dementia Care Intervention

ABSTRACT: Abstract Careful fidelity monitoring is critical to implementing evidence-based interventions in dementia care settings to ensure that the intervention is delivered consistently and as intended. Most approaches to fidelity monitoring rely on human coding of content that has been covered during a session or of stylistic aspects of the intervention, including rapport, empathy, enthusiasm and are unrealistic to implement on a large scale in real world settings. Technological advances in automatic speech recognition and language and speech processing offers potential solutions to overcome these barriers. We compare three commercial automatic speech recognition tools on spoken content drawn from dementia care interactions to determine the accuracy of recognition and the guarantees for privacy o

SUBMITTER: Hodgson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7743747 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature