Insights From Important Event Recounts Told by People With Traumatic Brain Injury.

Purpose: Communication can be chronically impacted by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet there is a critical lack of research investigating communication recovery beyond 12 months postinjury with discourse measures. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate quantitative and qualitative chan...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 67; no. 9; pp. 3064 - 3081
Autores principales: Zhang, Erica, Steel, Joanne, Togher, Leanne, Fromm, Davida, MacWhinney, Brian, Bogart, Elise
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Sep2024
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          Zhang, Erica
          Steel, Joanne
          Togher, Leanne
          Fromm, Davida
          MacWhinney, Brian
          Bogart, Elise
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          The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
          The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
          Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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        Pennsylvania
        Communicative competence
        Content analysis
        Sound recordings
        Storytelling
        Analysis of variance
        Rehabilitation for brain injury patients
        Repeated measures design
        Data analysis
        Scientific observation
        Severity of illness index
        Descriptive statistics
        Chi-squared test
        Longitudinal method
        Research methodology
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        Statistics
        Research
        Neuropsychological tests
        Convalescence
        Data analysis software
        Confidence intervals
        Comparative studies
        Speech therapy
        Video recording
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          Communicative competence
          Content analysis
          Sound recordings
          Storytelling
          Analysis of variance
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          Repeated measures design
          Data analysis
          Scientific observation
          Severity of illness index
          Descriptive statistics
          Chi-squared test
          Longitudinal method
          Research methodology
          Friedman test (Statistics)
          Statistics
          Research
          Neuropsychological tests
          Convalescence
          Data analysis software
          Confidence intervals
          Comparative studies
          Speech therapy
          Video recording
      ab: Purpose: Communication can be chronically impacted by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), yet there is a critical lack of research investigating communication recovery beyond 12 months postinjury with discourse measures. This longitudinal study aimed to investigate quantitative and qualitative changes in important event recounts produced by a group of people with severe TBI up to 2 years postinjury. Method: A prospective observational design with an inception cohort was adopted. Thirty-four participants with severe TBI were asked to produce an important event recount at 6, 12, and 24 months postinjury. A mixed-methods approach comprised a quantitative analysis of microlinguistic and macrostructural measures, using the automated discourse command EVAL in Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) and the CLAN Collaborative Commentary tool, respectively. Statistical analysis included a repeated-measures analysis of variance and the Friedman test. An independent qualitative content analysis was also conducted. Results: The measures revealed significant differences between 6 and 24 months, indicating a protracted recovery trajectory. The microlinguistic analysis showed increased use of revision and repetition over time. The macrostructural analysis indicated changes with orientation to recount characters, evaluative comments, and the number of events or complexity of the recount. The content analysis revealed categories of (a) childhood events, (b) family and relationships, (c) career and education, and (d) grief and loss. Topics at 6 months focused on childhood events and holidays, whereas career and education predominated at 24 months. Conclusions: This is the first study to explore important event recounts told by people with severe TBI as they recovered. Participants showed discourse recovery beyond 12 months, highlighting the need for equivalent timing of service provision. The important event recount shows good potential as an ecologically valid assessment tool to evaluate communication recovery that can also be integrated with advances in computerized analysis. Analyses additionally provided insights into potential therapy targets and content categories for chronic discourse impairments.
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