Key result
Post-stroke psychosocial adjustment follows highly individual trajectories regardless of aphasia type or severity.
Why the study?
Associations between clinical and functional aphasia recovery and emotional and psychosocial adjustment in patients, their significant others, and speech pathologists were not well understood.
Observational (n=5)
Emotional and psychosocial adjustment in aphasia recovery varies uniquely among individuals and their significant others, independent of aphasia severity.
Individualized psychosocial support may be warranted in aphasia; hypothesis-generating for dyadic interventions beyond aphasia severity.
Associations between clinical and functional aphasia recovery and perceptions of emotional and psychosocial adjustment accompanying aphasia were examined in five subjects at 3 and 9 months post-onset of stroke using a range of objective and subjective measures. The subjective well-being and optimism of significant others of aphasic patients was also examined, and speech pathologists completed measures of optimism. Unique patterns of individual emotional and psychosocial adjustment were found over time in patients and their significant others, even in patients with similar aphasia type and severity. Individual variability in emotional and psychosocial adjustment and their impact on recovery from aphasia are discussed.
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Hemsley et al. (1996) conducted an observational in Aphasia post-stroke (n=5). Emotional and psychosocial adjustment was evaluated on Clinical and functional aphasia recovery and perceptions of emotional and psychosocial adjustment. Emotional and psychosocial adjustment showed unique individual patterns over time in 5 patients with aphasia and their significant others, regardless of aphasia type and severity.
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