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The relationship between vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning for people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2021

Barbra Zupan Open the ORCID record for Barbra Zupan [Opens in a new window] ,
Leah Dunn ,
Susanne Hackney  and
Bahtiyorhon Shamshidinova
Barbra Zupan*
Affiliation:
Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Leah Dunn
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Public Health, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Susanne Hackney
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Public Health, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Bahtiyorhon Shamshidinova
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Public Health, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
*
*Corresponding author. Email: b.zupan@cqu.edu.au
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Abstract

The purpose of this review was to explore how vocal affect recognition deficits impact the psychosocial functioning of people with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). A systematic review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines was conducted, whereby six databases were searched, with additional hand searching of key journals also completed. The search identified 1847 records after duplicates were removed, and 1749 were excluded through title and abstract screening. After full text screening of 65 peer-reviewed articles published between January 1999 and August 2019, only five met inclusion criteria. The methodological quality of selected studies was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) Version 2018 with a fair level of agreement reached. A narrative synthesis of the results was completed, exploring vocal affect recognition and psychosocial functioning of people with moderate to severe TBI, including aspects of social cognition (i.e., empathy; Theory of Mind) and social behaviour. Results of the review were limited by a paucity of research in this area, a lack of high-level evidence, and wide variation in the outcome measures used. More rigorous study designs are required to establish more conclusive evidence regarding the degree and direction of the association between vocal affect recognition and aspects of psychosocial functioning. This review is registered with Prospero.

Keywords

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)vocal affectprosodypsychosocial functioningpsychosocial wellbeing
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Review
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Brain Impairment , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , December 2021 , pp. 260 - 280
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment

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