title: Reliability of Videoconferencing Administration of a Communication Questionnaire to People With Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Close Others.
abstract: To compare in-person with videoconferencing administration of a communication questionnaire for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their close others.
  
  
  
  Repeated-measures design with randomized order of administration.
  
  
  
  Twenty adults with severe TBI and their close others.
  
  
  
  Both participants with TBI and their close others completed the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire (LCQ) via interview with a clinician, once via Skype and once during a home visit.
  
  
  
  Total LCQ score and time taken for completion.
  
  
  
  There were no significant differences between videoconferencing and in-person conditions in the total scores or time taken to complete the questionnaire.
  
  
  
  Videoconferencing-based administration of the LCQ is as reliable and efficient as in-person administration.
authors.affiliation: Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia (Mss Rietdijk and Brunner and Drs Power and Togher); NHMRC CRE in Brain Recovery (Moving Ahead), School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Mss Rietdijk and Brunner and Drs Power and Togher); and Discipline of Speech Pathology, Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia (Ms Brunner).
authors.forename: Rachael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rietdijk
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brunner
authors.forename: Leanne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Togher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009517:New South Wales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D049269:Videoconferencing; D055815:Young Adult