Assessing Patients and Care Partner Ratings of Communication-Related Participation Restrictions: Insights From Degenerative Disease.
Rene L UtianskiPeter R MartinJoseph R DuffyHeather M ClarkJulie A G StierwaltHugo BothaFarwa AliJennifer L WhitwellKeith Anthony JosephsPublished in: American journal of speech-language pathology (2023)
Although careful consideration should be given prior to using care-partner report as a proxy for patient experience, it is worthwhile to include care partner ratings as a means of supporting conversations about differing perceptions, guiding joint intervention planning, and monitoring care-partner perceptions of change along with the implementation of supported conversation strategies.