Self-Awareness Multilevel Assessment Scale (SAMAS): psychometric analysis of inter-rater reliability.
Ann Ist Super Sanita
; 58(3): 177-182, 2022.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Severe acquired brain injury (sABI) frequently causes impairment in self-awareness (ISA), leading to reduced patients' compliance to treatment, worse functional outcome, and high caregiver distress. Self-awareness (SA) is a multilevel and complex function that, as such, requires a specific and effective assessment. To date, many tools are available to evaluate the declarative, but not emergent and anticipatory levels of awareness, therefore the Self-Awareness Multilevel Assessment Scale (SAMAS) was recently proposed. The new tool proved to be useful to assess SA at different levels across all domains of functioning (motor, cognitive, psycho-behavioural, etc.) because it measures not only the declarative SA, but also emergent and anticipatory levels of SA, thus overcoming some important limits of other current assessment methods.AIM:
This study evaluated the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of the SAMAS.METHODS:
Four professionals blind to each other evaluated 12 patients with sABI. Each patient was rated by two professionals.RESULTS:
Inter-rater reliability was moderate-to-excellent, adding evidence in support of the use of SAMAS to specifically diagnose ISA after sABI.CONCLUSIONS:
The SAMAS can help to better address neurorehabilitation, as it allows assessing ISA as early as possible, at all possible levels of awareness and functional domains.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Concienciación
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ann Ist Super Sanita
Año:
2022
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Article
País de afiliación:
Italia