We’re excited that our main results article has just been published!

The article reports on whether the study was feasible and acceptable, the clinical outcomes, and the perspectives of the therapists, recruitment sites and people with aphasia.

It’s open access, free to download. Click here to read the paper.

We’ve also created a 4-minute video summarising the results.

Here’s the link to the video:

Here are some key findings:

The therapy was perceived as valuable and acceptable both to people with aphasia and also the Speech and Language Therapists working in the trial. 44% of our participants had severe aphasia – they also gave the therapy the thumbs up.

We were able to recruit to time and on target.

We were able to retain people within the trial: we followed up 97% of our participants at 6 months.

Training, regular supervision and real-time support were all considered essential to enable Speech and Language Therapists to deliver this intervention.

We hope you enjoy reading the article!

Online event

A big thank you to everyone who came to the SOFIA online dissemination event on Thursday 17th June. We were delighted to welcome 137 attendees from across the world – and touched by all the supportive and positive feedback.

If you were unable to come to the event, there is a recording now available.

Qualitative journal article

We are also very excited that a SOFIA paper has recently been published in Qualitative Health Research journal. This article explores how 30 people with aphasia experienced receiving Solution Focused Brief Therapy. It is open access, so free to download.

Click here to read the paper.

Northcott, S., Simpson, A., Thomas, S., Barnard, R. A., Burns, K., Hirani, S. P., & Hilari, K. (2021). ‘Now I am myself’: exploring how people with post-stroke aphasia experienced Solution Focused Brief Therapy within the SOFIA Trial. Qualitative health research. doi:10.1177/10497323211020290

We also made a 3-minute video summarising this article.

We have finally finished the SOFIA project!

To celebrate the project and share our results we are holding a free online event on zoom:

Thursday 17th June, 4.00-5.30pm

Please do come along! To register for your free ticket, please visit:

http://bit.ly/SOFIAzoom

We will share what we found out from the project. You will also be able to hear the therapists reflect on how they found delivering the intervention, and listen to the story of a person living with aphasia.

We do hope you can come along!