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OBJECTIVES: To describe the effects of communication partner training on persons
with aphasia and their communication partners. Specifically the systematic review
addressed 3 clinical questions regarding the impact of partner training on
language, communication activity and participation, psychosocial adjustment, and
quality of life for adults with aphasia and their communication partners. DATA
SOURCES: Twenty-three terms were used to search 12 electronic databases (eg,
PubMed, CINAHL, PsychINFO, PsychArticles, CSA Linguistics and Language Behavior
Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index [Web of Science], SUMSearch, TRIP,
EMBASE, REHABDATA, National Library for Health, Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews) and the journal "Aphasiology." References from all relevant articles
were hand-searched. STUDY SELECTION: Two reviewers independently applied
inclusion criteria to select potential relevant articles from the titles and
abstracts of references retrieved by the literature search. The full text of the
remaining articles was reviewed by a 5-member panel, resulting in a corpus of 31
studies that met the final inclusion criteria. DATA EXTRACTION: Two independent
reviewers extracted the descriptive data related to the participants, the
intervention, the outcome measures, and the results.
DATA SYNTHESIS: The 5-member
review team by consensus classified the studies using the American Academy of
Neurology system for classification of evidence (2004). CONCLUSIONS: Evidence
shows that communication partner training is effective in improving communication
activities and/or participation of the communication partner and is probably
effective in improving communication activities and/or participation of persons
with chronic aphasia when they are interacting with trained communication
partners. There is insufficient evidence to make recommendations related to the
impact of partner training on persons with acute aphasia or the impact of
training on language impairment, psychosocial adjustment, or quality of life for
either the person with aphasia or the communication partner.
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