Telephone assessment of functioning and well-being following stroke: Is it feasible?

Telephone and face‐to‐face interviews generate similar falls circumstances information from community‐dwelling adults with stroke

“…While our results indicated that either face‐to‐face or telephone interviews may be used to collect data about fall events, it is recognised that there will be times when a face‐to‐face interview or the use of a proxy interview respondent, such as a carer, is more appropriate for the accurate collection of detailed falls information e.g. if poor hearing and no assistive device on phone, if English is a second language or if there are receptive or expressive language difficulties following stroke 5,6 …”

Measuring Outcomes in People Who Have Had a Stroke and Their Carers: Can the Telephone Be Used?

“…A period of 2 weeks separated the two methods of administration. Previous studies have shown that after returning home following a stroke, a stroke patient' s clinical status may not vary greatly within 2 weeks, 24 however it is long enough to eliminate some test-retest bias. 31 One research assistant completed the telephone interviews for participants in Group 1 and the face-to-face interviews for participants in Group 2.…”

“…Additionally, communication impairments such as aphasia and dysarthria may result in difficulty during both face-toface and telephone interviews due to a reduced understanding of verbal instruction and an inability of the individual being interviewed to formulate an appropriate or intelligible response. 24 stroke. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the outcome measures via telephone or mail administration.…”

“…28 A study by Mackintosh and colleagues 29 found satisfactory agreement (P < .05; 75% agreement) between face-to-face and telephone interviews when collecting falls information using standardised questions from nine community-dwelling people with stroke. Goldstein and colleagues 24 assessed the feasibility and psychometric properties of the telephoneadministered version of the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and 3 (HUI2/3) with 76 stroke patients and 109 carers. Telephone interviews were found to produce a high amount of missing data, which was attributed to stroke-related impairments, such as aphasia and impaired cognitive abilities.…”

Korean Stroke Cohort for functioning and rehabilitation (KOSCO): study rationale and protocol of a multi-centre prospective cohort study

“…Although a structured telephone interview is widely favored and recommended by researchers [ 16 ], it is suboptimal for measuring stroke outcomes. Indeed, it is hard to collect functional data by telephone from stroke patients with moderate to severe levels of language or cognitive impairment [ 17 ].…”