Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Disabil Rehabil. 2012;34(18):1562-74. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2012.656788. Epub 2012 Feb 24.
To investigate the experiences of participants who attended communication training programs for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their everyday communication partners (CP) as part of a non-randomised controlled trial.
The participants were people with TBI and their CP, who were family members or carers of the people with TBI. Twenty-six participants (13 participants with TBI and 13 CP) completed the JOINT program, which involved participants with TBI and CP attending the program together. Fourteen participants with TBI completed the TBI SOLO training program, which did not involve the participation of a CP. Semi-structured videotaped interviews were completed by all participants at the end of the training. Using a six-step generic analysis procedure, data were categorised into topics and then subtopics to identify conceptually discrete units.
Participants described improvements in communication skills, the impact of improved communication skills, valuable components of the programs and components that needed changes.
The accounts of participants provided additional evidence for the effectiveness of the training programs, assisted with identifying helpful components of the training and demonstrated the usefulness of a qualitative research methodology as part of evaluating the outcomes of the clinical trial.
调查参与者在创伤性脑损伤 (TBI) 沟通培训计划中的体验，这些参与者是 TBI 患者及其日常沟通伙伴 (CP)，作为一项非随机对照试验的一部分。
参与者为 TBI 患者及其 CP，CP 是 TBI 患者的家庭成员或护理人员。26 名参与者（13 名 TBI 患者和 13 名 CP）完成了联合计划，该计划涉及 TBI 患者和 CP 一起参加该计划。14 名 TBI 患者完成了 TBI SOLO 培训计划，该计划不涉及 CP 的参与。所有参与者在培训结束时都完成了半结构化的录像采访。使用六步通用分析程序，将数据分类为主题，然后分类为子主题，以确定概念上离散的单元。
参与者描述了沟通技巧的提高、沟通技巧提高的影响、培训计划的有价值组成部分以及需要改变的组成部分。
参与者的叙述为培训计划的有效性提供了额外的证据，有助于确定培训的有用组成部分，并展示了定性研究方法作为评估临床试验结果的一部分的有用性。
