In Search for the Meaning of Illness: Content of Narrative Discourse Is Related to Cognitive Deficits in Stroke Patients.

ABSTRACT: Stroke survivors undergo a thorough cognitive diagnosis that often involves administration of multiple standardized tests. However, patient's narrative discourse can provide clinicians with additional knowledge on patient's subjective experience of illness, attitude toward current situation, and motivation for treatment. We evaluated the methods of analyzing thematic content and story types in relationship to cognitive impairment in stroke survivors with no aphasia (including 9 left hemisphere damage - LHD patients, and 16 right hemisphere damage - RHD patients). Cognitive impairment was evaluated in comparison to a group of 25 patients with orthopaedic injury not involving the brain. Our findings primarily show that higher elaboration on own cognitive problems, physical ailments or coping

SUBMITTER: Egbert AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7847845 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature