Author/Editor | Hilari, Katerina; Klippi, Anu; Constantinidou, Fofi; Horton, Simon; Penn, Claire; Raymer, Anastasia; Wallace, Sarah; Žemva, Nada; Worrall, Linda | |
Title | An international perspective on quality of life in aphasia | |
Type | članek | |
Vol. and No. | Letnik 67, št. 3 | |
Publication year | 2015 | |
Volume | str. 119-130 | |
ISSN | 1421-9972 - Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) | |
Language | eng | |
Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To gain an insight into speech and language therapists' perspectives on and practices in quality of life in aphasia. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: The International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Aphasia Committee developed a survey questionnaire, which was delivered online, anonymously, through SurveyMonkey (November 2012 to April 2013) to clinicians working with people with aphasia in 16 countries across the world. RESULTS: A large number of speech and language therapists responded to the survey, with 19/21 questions answered by 385-579 participants. Clinicians were well informed on what constitutes quality of life and viewed it as a complex construct influenced by health, participation, in/dependence, communication, personal factors, and environmental factors. In their clinical practice, they considered quality of life as important, used informal approaches to explore it and aimed to address quality of life goals; yet, the majority did not evaluate quality of life in a systematic way. CONCLUSION: There is a need for training on quality of life to help speech and language therapists incorporate quality of life outcome measures in their interventions. There is also a need for further research on which interventions improve quality of life in aphasia. | |
Descriptors | Language Therapy Aphasia Aphasia Attitude of Health Personnel Cross-Cultural Comparison Health Surveys Humans Inservice Training Quality of Life Speech Therapy Surveys and Questionnaires psychology rehabilitation psychology | |
Keywords | govorna terapija izobraževanje afazija rehabilitacija kvaliteta življenja psihologija odnos zdravstvenega osebja zdravstvene ankete ljudje ankete in vprašalniki |