Erfarenheter av kommunikation i vårdmöten för personer med afasi efter stroke : En litteraturstudie

Sammanfattning: Background: Aphasia related stroke affects an individual's ability to formulate and comprehend language, making communication difficult. This communicative impairment is caused by a stroke, affecting around 15 million people worldwide.  Aim: The aim is to investigate and describe the experiences of communication for individuals with aphasia after a stroke in healthcare interactions. Method: This study follows a general literature review approach. The databases CINAHL and PubMed were used, where scientific articles with a qualitative approach were selected for analysis. A thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke was applied in the study. Results: The literature review identified two themes: 1) communication in healthcare meetings, with two sub-themes: the inability to make oneself understood to healthcare providers and the inability to understand healthcare providers; 2) The individual in focus, with two sub-themes: trust and confidence, and the partnership in healthcare interactions.  Conclusion: The study found a lack of person-centered care in connection with aphasia-related communication difficulties, resulting in unmet basic care needs, such as inadequate pain management and fall accidents. Future research should examine implementing different standardized methods to aid healthcare workers in communication strategies, pain assessments, patient perspective training and involving relatives in communication.