A Study Protocol for Persons With Neurological Diseases: Linking Rehabilitation Goals to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health With a Focus on Assistive Technology for Cognition and Its Effects.
Helen Lindner, Nina Buer
PMID 36188959WHAT IT FOUND
This paper sets out a plan to track how well assistive technology helps adults with neurological conditions reach personal goals over five years.
No patients have been studied yet, so there are no results to change practice today.
Key findings
01The study plans to link rehabilitation goals to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to standardise how outcomes are reported.
02Effects of assistive technology for cognition will be measured using Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) scores over a five-year period.
03The study aims to identify factors that predict whether patients achieve their goals when using this technology.
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What it does not show
This is a study protocol, not a completed study. It contains no data, no participants, and no outcomes. The plan assumes a 40% dropout rate over five years, which is a significant challenge for longitudinal research in this population. The study is single-centre, which may limit the generalisability of the findings once they are eventually reported.
Declared interests
The authors declare no commercial or financial conflicts of interest. The study is funded by Region Örebro län.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this paper as evidence that assistive technology for cognition improves outcomes or that the ICF linking method is effective. The paper only proposes a way to measure these things in the future; no patients have been studied and no results exist.