The Italian validation of the Communicative Effectiveness Index Questionnaire: a multicentric study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasquale Moretta ◽  
Anna Lanzillo ◽  
Maria Daniela Lo Sapio ◽  
Simona Spaccavento ◽  
Fara Cellamare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multicentric Study ◽  
Italian Validation ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

scholarly journals Correction to: The Italian validation of the communicative effectiveness index questionnaire: a multicentric study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasquale Moretta ◽  
Anna Lanzillo ◽  
Maria Daniela Lo Sapio ◽  
Simona Spaccavento ◽  
Fara Cellamare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multicentric Study ◽  
Italian Validation ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

scholarly journals Clinical Effectiveness of the Queen Square Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Service for Patients With Poststroke Aphasia

Stroke ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander P. Leff ◽  
Sarah Nightingale ◽  
Beth Gooding ◽  
Jean Rutter ◽  
Nicola Craven ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Clinical Effectiveness ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Auditory Comprehension ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Time Interaction ◽  
Short Period ◽  
High Doses ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

Background and Purpose: Poststroke aphasia has a major impact on peoples’ quality of life. Speech and language therapy interventions work, especially in high doses, but these doses are rarely achieved outside of research studies. Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) are an option to deliver high doses of therapy to people with aphasia over a short period of time. Methods: Forty-six people with aphasia in the chronic stage poststroke completed the ICAP over a 3-week period, attending for 15 days and averaging 6 hours of therapy per day. Outcome measures included the Comprehensive Aphasia Test, an impairment-based test of the 4 main domains of language (speaking, writing, auditory comprehension, and reading) which was measured at 3 time points (baseline, immediately posttreatment at 3 weeks and follow-up at 12-week post-ICAP); and, the Communicative Effectiveness Index, a carer-reported measure of functional communication skills collected at baseline and 12 weeks. Results: A 2-way repeated measures multivariate ANOVA was conducted. We found a significant domain-by-time interaction, F =12.7, P <0.0005, indicating that the ICAP improved people with aphasia’s language scores across all 4 domains, with the largest gains in speaking (Cohen’s d =1.3). All gains were maintained or significantly improved further at 12-week post-ICAP. Importantly, patients’ functional communication, as indexed by changes on the Communicative Effectiveness Index, also significantly improved at 12-week post-ICAP, t =5.4, P <0.0005, also with a large effect size (Cohen’s d =0.9). Conclusions: People with aphasia who participated in the Queen Square ICAP made large and clinically meaningful gains on both impairment-based and functional measures of language. Gains were sustained and in some cases improved further over the subsequent 12 weeks.

Communicative Effectiveness Index

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lomas ◽  
Laura Pickard ◽  
Stella Bester ◽  
Heather Elbard ◽  
Alan Finlayson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI)

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-216
Author(s):  
Lomas ◽  
Pickard ◽  
Bester ◽  
Elbard ◽  
Finlayson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

The Communicative Effectiveness Index

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lomas ◽  
Laura Pickard ◽  
Stella Bester ◽  
Heather Elbard ◽  
Alan Finlayson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Performance Change ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
Global Ratings ◽  
Communication Ability ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

Groups of aphasic patients and their spouses generated a series of communication situations that they felt were important in their day-to-day life. Using criteria to ensure that the situations were generalizable across people, times, and places, we reduced the number of situations to 36 and constructed an index that allowed the significant others of 11 recovering and 11 stable aphasic individuals to rate their partners' performance in the situations on two occasions 6 weeks apart. These data were then used to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI) as a measure of change in functional communication ability. Further application of a generalization criterion reduced the final index to 16 situations. Results showed the CETI to be internally consistent and to have acceptable test-retest and interrater reliability. It was valid as a measure of functional communication according to the pattern of correlations found with other measures (Western Aphasia Battery, Speech Questionnaire, and global ratings). Finally, it was responsive to functionally important performance change between testings. Further research with the CETI and its usefulness for clinicians and researchers are discussed.

Communicative Effectiveness Index--Italian Version

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasquale Moretta ◽  
Anna Lanzillo ◽  
Maria Daniela Lo Sapio ◽  
Simona Spaccavento ◽  
Fara Cellamare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Italian Version ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

scholarly journals The effect of augmented speech-language therapy delivered by telerehabilitation on poststroke aphasia—a pilot randomized controlled trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hege Prag Øra ◽  
Melanie Kirmess ◽  
Marian C Brady ◽  
Iselin Partee ◽  
Randi Bjor Hognestad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Usual Care ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Test Sentence ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Auditory Comprehension ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

Objective: Pilot a definitive randomized controlled trial of speech-language telerehabilitation in poststroke aphasia in addition to usual care with regard to recruitment, drop-outs, and language effects. Design: Pilot single-blinded randomized controlled trial. Setting: Telerehabilitation delivered from tertiary rehabilitation center to participants at their home or admitted to secondary rehabilitation centers. Subjects: People with naming impairment due to aphasia following stroke. Intervention: Sixty-two participants randomly allocated to 5 hours of speech and language telerehabilitation by videoconference per week over four consecutive weeks together with usual care or usual care alone. The telerehabilitation targeted functional, expressive language. Main measures: Norwegian Basic Aphasia Assessment: naming (primary outcome), repetition, and auditory comprehension subtests; Verb and Sentence Test sentence production subtest and the Communicative Effectiveness Index at baseline, four weeks, and four months postrandomization. Data were analyzed by intention to treat. Results: No significant between-group differences were seen in naming or auditory comprehension in the Norwegian Basic Aphasia Assessment at four weeks and four months post randomization. The telerehabilitation group ( n = 29) achieved a Norwegian Basic Aphasia Assessment repetition score of 8.9 points higher ( P = 0.026) and a Verb and Sentence Test score 3 points higher ( P = 0.002) than the control group ( n = 27) four months postrandomization. Communicative Effectiveness Index was not significantly different between groups, but increased significantly within both groups. No adverse events were reported. Conclusion: Augmented telerehabilitation via videoconference may be a viable rehabilitation model for aphasia affecting language outcomes poststroke. A definitive trial with 230 participants is needed to confirm results.

The Communicative Effectiveness Index: Psychometric properties of a Danish adaptation

Aphasiology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 787-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palle Møller Pedersen ◽  
Kirsten Vinter ◽  
Tom Skyhøj Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

scholarly journals The Communicative Effectiveness Index: Its use with South African stroke patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Penn ◽  
Kelly Milner ◽  
Peter Fridjhon
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Functional Communication ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Effectiveness Index ◽  
Communicative Effectiveness

The functional communication of a group of 28 South African stroke patients was examined using the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI). It was translated into Afrikaans, Sotho and Zulu and administered to the significant others of 22 aphasic patients with left hemisphere damage and 6 patients with right hemisphere damage. Results were related to the results of standardised language testing and to case history factors such as cultural factors and time since onset. The CETI was readministered in the case of eight of the aphasic subjects after a mean period of six months in order to assess its sensitivity to recovery. Results showed that the CETI seems applicable across different language groups, that it is sensitive to change across time as well as sensitive to the communication disorders resulting from both right and left hemisphere damage. Further it appears to correlate well with overall level of severity. It does not appear differentiate patients in terms of time since onset. Its potential use as a relatively culture free assessment tool in the South African context is discussed.

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