Umberto Bivona, Giulia Ferri, Maria De Luca, Susanna Lucatello, Marta Aloisi, Marianna Contrada, Paola Ciurli, Valentina Bandiera, Paola Lo Sterzo, Giorgio Lombardi, Rita Formisano, Alberto Costa
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Abstract
Background: Severe acquired brain injury (sABI) frequently causes impairment in self-awareness (ISA), leading to reduced patients' compliance to treatment, worse functional outcome, and high caregiver distress. Self-awareness (SA) is a multilevel and complex function that, as such, requires a specific and effective assessment. To date, many tools are available to evaluate the declarative, but not emergent and anticipatory levels of awareness, therefore the Self-Awareness Multilevel Assessment Scale (SAMAS) was recently proposed. The new tool proved to be useful to assess SA at different levels across all domains of functioning (motor, cognitive, psycho-behavioural, etc.) because it measures not only the declarative SA, but also emergent and anticipatory levels of SA, thus overcoming some important limits of other current assessment methods.
Aim: This study evaluated the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of the SAMAS.
Methods: Four professionals blind to each other evaluated 12 patients with sABI. Each patient was rated by two professionals.
Results: Inter-rater reliability was moderate-to-excellent, adding evidence in support of the use of SAMAS to specifically diagnose ISA after sABI.
Conclusions: The SAMAS can help to better address neurorehabilitation, as it allows assessing ISA as early as possible, at all possible levels of awareness and functional domains.
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Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità is a peer reviewed quarterly science journal which publishes research articles in biomedicine, translational research and in many other disciplines of the health sciences. The journal includes the following material: original articles, reviews, commentaries, editorials, brief and technical notes, book reviews.
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The journal is in English.