Conceptualization of Participation: A Qualitative Synthesis of Brain Injury Stakeholder Perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The return to participation in meaningful life roles for persons with acquired brain injury (pwABI) is a goal shared by pwABI, their families, clinicians, and researchers. Synthesizing how pwABI define participation will help to identify the aspects of participation important to pwABI and can inform a person-centered approach to participation outcome assessment. To-date, the qualitative synthesis approach has been used to explore facilitators and barriers of participation post-stroke, and views about participation among individuals with stroke in the UK.

Objectives

This paper's objectives are to (1) conduct a scoping review of qualitative literature that defines and characterizes participation from the perspective of pwABI of any type, (2) synthesize how pwABI def

SUBMITTER: Rajala C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9397755 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature