Health science students’ perceptions of motor and sensory aphasia caused by stroke

Abstract

[Purpose] This study explored health science students’ perceptions of motor aphasia and sensory aphasia caused by stroke to provide basic material for the improvement of rehabilitation practitioners’ perceptions of aphasia. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects of this study were 642 freshmen and sophomores majoring in health science. Perceptions of aphasia were surveyed on a semantic differential scale using the Anchoring Vignette Method and the difference in perception of the two types of aphasia was analyzed using multi-dimensional scaling. [Results] The analysis revealed that motor aphasia and sensory aphasia have mutually corresponding images. Motor aphasia had high levels of ‘quiet’, ‘passive’ ‘dumb’, ‘unstable’ and ‘gloomy’ images, while sensory aphasia had high levels of ‘noisy’, ‘unstable’, ‘cheerful’, ‘sensitive’, ‘fluctuating in emotions’, ‘active’, ‘dumb’ and ‘gloomy’ images. [Conclusion] A systematic education is required to be implemented in the future to improve health science students’ negative perceptions of the aftereffects of stroke such as aphasia.

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“…The phenomenon of significant others adjusting their expectations is probably a natural and, in many cases, functional adaptation to the impact of the stroke on everyday life. However, there is evidence that aphasia and other communication disorders have specific, negative impact on the perception of an individual [47,48], which might indicate that aphasia can be a particularly strong factor for lowering of expectations. In this there is an inherent risk of underestimation of the competence of the PWSA [49].…”