Poster Session II
Project Type
Poster
Faculty Mentor’s Full Name
Catherine Off and Jenna Musick
Faculty Mentor’s Department
School of Speech, Language, Hearing, and Occupational Sciences
Additional Mentor
jenna.musick@mso.umt.edu
Abstract / Artist's Statement
Documenting Supportive Communication Strategies in PROM Administration for Persons With Aphasia
Tyra Kucinski, Allison Marr, Emilia Waters
Introduction: Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that impairs speaking, listening, writing, and/or reading, with intelligence remaining intact. Aphasia also disrupts mental health, quality of life, and communicative participation. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized questionnaires that allow patients to reflect on their functional health status, providing insight into how persons with aphasia (PWAs) perceive their condition and/or the treatment they are receiving. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) frequently provide a number of supportive communication strategies to ensure accuracy of patient responses on PROMs and remove language impairment as a barrier.
Purpose: To document the range of supportive communication techniques and strategies (i.e., PROM adaptations) used by SLP researchers when they administer PROMs.
Methods: We co-developed a coding scheme of PROM adaptations resulting in three behavioral categories through observing expert clinicians administering PROMs. We then quantified and coded specific clinician behaviors within the established categories during administration to PWAs (n=8) across several PROMs to document the frequency of each.
Results: Findings will include behavioral frequency counts of PROM adaptations. Analysis will be complete at the time of presentation.
Significance: Understanding PROM adaptations allows clinicians to better understand which supports are most effective in increasing patient accessibility to PROMs. More broadly, giving PWAs the appropriate level of language and support allows individuals to accurately report their perspectives. Ultimately, the opportunity for PWAs to accurately report their own health outcomes will improve quality of care, equity, and accessibility across healthcare systems.
Category
Life Sciences
Documenting Supportive Communication Strategies in PROM Administration for Persons With Aphasia
UC South Ballroom
Documenting Supportive Communication Strategies in PROM Administration for Persons With Aphasia
Tyra Kucinski, Allison Marr, Emilia Waters
Introduction: Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that impairs speaking, listening, writing, and/or reading, with intelligence remaining intact. Aphasia also disrupts mental health, quality of life, and communicative participation. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized questionnaires that allow patients to reflect on their functional health status, providing insight into how persons with aphasia (PWAs) perceive their condition and/or the treatment they are receiving. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) frequently provide a number of supportive communication strategies to ensure accuracy of patient responses on PROMs and remove language impairment as a barrier.
Purpose: To document the range of supportive communication techniques and strategies (i.e., PROM adaptations) used by SLP researchers when they administer PROMs.
Methods: We co-developed a coding scheme of PROM adaptations resulting in three behavioral categories through observing expert clinicians administering PROMs. We then quantified and coded specific clinician behaviors within the established categories during administration to PWAs (n=8) across several PROMs to document the frequency of each.
Results: Findings will include behavioral frequency counts of PROM adaptations. Analysis will be complete at the time of presentation.
Significance: Understanding PROM adaptations allows clinicians to better understand which supports are most effective in increasing patient accessibility to PROMs. More broadly, giving PWAs the appropriate level of language and support allows individuals to accurately report their perspectives. Ultimately, the opportunity for PWAs to accurately report their own health outcomes will improve quality of care, equity, and accessibility across healthcare systems.