Deans' stroke musings: Psychometric analysis of the behavioral assessment screening tool (BAST) in adults with stroke

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Psychometric analysis of the behavioral assessment screening tool (BAST) in adults with stroke

Does anything in this even remotely get survivors better recovery? Just asking for when you are the 1 in 4 per WHO that has a stroke.

Psychometric analysis of the behavioral assessment screening tool (BAST) in adults with stroke

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 29(5) , Pgs. 321-330.

NARIC Accession Number: J89488. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Osborne, Candice; Wong, Alex; Vo, Willa; Juengst, Shannon.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 10.

Abstract:

Study examined the initial psychometric properties of the Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool (BAST), a self-reported measure of neurobehavioral symptoms, in adults with stroke. The subscale and item-level reliabilities of the five BAST subscales were assessed in 75 community-dwelling adults with stroke. In addition, the known-groups validity of the BAST were assessed to differentiate 47 individuals with stroke and 1,843 neurologically healthy controls. Results showed Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of all subscales were >0.7, demonstrating acceptable-to-good internal consistency reliabilities, and corrected item-total correlations were all >.30 demonstrating good item-level reliabilities. Receiver operating characteristic curves demonstrated strong known-groups validity of the negative affect, executive function, and fatigue subscales for classifying stroke versus healthy controls (area under the curve = .669-.758). The BAST demonstrates good initial psychometric properties as a screening tool to identify neurobehavioral symptoms in community-dwelling adults with stroke. Future work will add stroke-specific items, further assess the validity of the BAST, and employ item response theory or Rasch analyses to identify highly discriminative items for potential smart device-based ecological momentary assessments.
Descriptor Terms: MEASUREMENTS, OUTCOMES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Osborne, Candice, Wong, Alex, Vo, Willa, Juengst, Shannon. (2022). Psychometric analysis of the behavioral assessment screening tool (BAST) in adults with stroke. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 29(5), Pgs. 321-330. Retrieved 9/27/2022, from REHABDATA database.