Publications by authors named "Tatjana Prizl-Jakovac"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines how different aspects of speech and language therapy (SLT), such as frequency, intensity, and total hours, impact language recovery in stroke patients with aphasia, using individual participant data meta-analyses.
- It utilizes data from 25 randomized controlled trials involving 959 participants, categorizing results by factors like age, sex, severity of aphasia, and duration since the stroke.
- Findings suggest that working-age individuals benefit most from moderate to high-intensity SLT, indicating the importance of personalized rehabilitation plans to optimize treatment outcomes.
Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Group level summary statistics from randomised controlled trials hinder exploration of highly complex SLT interventions and a clinically relevant heterogeneous population. Creating a database of individual participant data (IPD) for people with aphasia aims to allow exploration of individual and therapy-related predictors of recovery and prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It has been suggested that public awareness of aphasia is vital for extending services, research support, social inclusion and targeted raising of awareness. Earlier studies show that knowledge of aphasia varies across a range of variables, but is very low compared with other conditions.
Aims: To report a series of surveys of public awareness of aphasia from six countries, the largest study conducted this far.