Communication between people with FTD or TBI and their families (1)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Communication between people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families: Understanding and improving conversational interaction
IRAS ID
237544
Contact name
Markus Reuber
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
STH20257, STH number
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 4 months, 17 days
Research summary
Conversation analysis (CA) looks at what people say to each other and how they say it. This study will use CA to investigate how people with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) talk with their family members. \n\nLittle research already exists using CA to compare conversation in FTD and conversation in TBI but there may be some similarities between behaviours caused by these conditions. Some behaviours help make conversation more successful and some make it more difficult. This study will look at what types of behaviours help and harm conversation in these groups of people. It is hoped that this study will help provide guidance to families of people with FTD or TBI with regard to how they can have more successful conversations and fewer communication breakdowns.\n\nPotential study participants will be identified through the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Community Brain Injury Rehabilitation Team, and local support groups. Participants will be loaned a video camera and asked to video-record some of their normal everyday conversations for a day. Participants will choose which conversations they want to record. The videoed conversations will then be analysed as detailed above.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds West Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/YH/0248
Date of REC Opinion
12 Sep 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion