Research Abstract:

Aim & Background:

Actual Reality (AR) is a functional cognitive assessment that looks at internet use to perform everyday life activities. This assessment examines underlying cognitive skills and their effect on performance of instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). However, the AR manual is still under development and has not been used in clinical practice . The aim of this research project is to clarify the AR manual instruction and scoring procedure to increase manual accessibility and accuracy among administration.

Methods:

Revision of the manual is based on implementation science strategies, including accommodation, communicability, and applicability. Strategy implementation was reinforced by incorporating feedback from our focus group and project director who all have AR experience.

Expected Results:

With the utilization of implementation science strategies our manual revisions will align with feedback from our focus group. Also, a tip sheet, or abbreviated form, was generated based on focus group feedback to guide navigation of manual usage. We expect that two novice AR administrators will be able to accurately score AR based on a video that will be provided to them.

Discussion:

For future studies, we would like to expand our focus group to include members with no AR experience, thus negating any priming effects demonstrated among the current group. A larger focus group will collect feedback for further revisions, allowing an improved manual, enhanced scoring accuracy, and detection of cognitive impairments.