Preliminary Psychometric Analyses of Two Assessment Measures Quantifying Communicative and Social Activities: the COMACT and SOCACT

摘要: Background: There is a need for clinical tools that capture the real-life impact of aphasia. This study reports on psychometric investigation two self-report tools: Communicative Activities Checklist and Social (COMACT; SOCACT), which assess dimensions communication activity social participation in aphasia.Aims: (1) To investigate internal consistency (IC), convergent, known validity COMACT SOCACT (2) to personal contextual factors: gender, age, years education, linguistic ability, emotional health communicative activities.Methods & Procedures: Thirty participants with mild-moderate chronic aphasia (people (PWA); mean age 71 years, time post onset 41 months, education 10.77) 75 control neurologically healthy (NHP; 74 years, 13.18) completed reporting how frequently they engaged particular ac...