The Impact of Stroke on Functional Cognition and Rehabilitation Approaches

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurorehabilitation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 2261

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Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Interests: stroke rehabilitation; occupational therapy

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Dear Colleagues,

Stroke is a global cause of severe disability. Therefore, this Special Issue of Brain Sciences, “The Impact of Stroke on Functional Cognition and Rehabilitation Approaches”, will focus on the cognitive impairments that occur after stroke. These include, but are not limited to, memory loss, attention deficits, unilateral attention loss (neglect), executive dysfunction, etc.

More specifically, it will focus on the impact of cognitive impairments on everyday living (activity limitations) and how these limitations impact life roles (participation restrictions).

The issue will include manuscripts that describe assessment procedures and intervention approaches.

Prof. Dr. Glen Gillen
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Keywords

  • cerebrovascular accident
  • stroke
  • cognition
  • activities of daily living
  • quality of life
  • assessment
  • intervention

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Interrater Reliability of the Occupational Therapy Anticipatory Awareness Test: A Performance-Based Cognitive Assessment
by Danielle Mahoney, Stephanie Alvarado and Rochelle Mendonca
Brain Sci. 2025, 15(5), 511; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15050511 - 16 May 2025
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Background: Functional cognitive impairments caused by acquired brain injury (ABI) negatively impact an individual’s daily functioning. Impaired self-awareness can pose obstacles to task execution and participation. Traditional assessment methods for self-awareness lack a functional approach, highlighting the need for performance-based assessments such as [...] Read more.
Background: Functional cognitive impairments caused by acquired brain injury (ABI) negatively impact an individual’s daily functioning. Impaired self-awareness can pose obstacles to task execution and participation. Traditional assessment methods for self-awareness lack a functional approach, highlighting the need for performance-based assessments such as the Occupational Therapy Anticipatory Awareness Test (OTAAT). The purpose of this study was to establish the interrater reliability of the OTAAT in adults with ABI. Methods: This was a two-phase study. Phase One involved the recruitment of three participants with ABI, who then underwent OTAAT administration within a setting of their choosing. OTAAT performances were recorded. In Phase Two, ten occupational therapists assessed the Phase One participants’ performances using the OTAAT. Phase Two’s raters’ outcomes were obtained by research personnel. These data were then collected and analyzed by research staff to measure interrater reliability using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) via IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. A two-way random effect, absolute agreement, multiple-rater/measurement ICC was adopted for this study. Results: Data analysis demonstrated strong interrater reliability for the OTAAT, demonstrating its consistency to measure self-awareness in individuals with ABI across different raters. Specifically, the ICC values indicated strong agreement among raters in their assessment of participants’ self-awareness performance using the OTAAT. Conclusions: The OTAAT has strong interrater reliability and holds promise as a valuable addition to neurorehabilitation practice. This study demonstrates the reliability of the OTAAT as a tool for assessing self-awareness in the ABI population. Full article
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