Recording OASMNR / SASBA assessments
These assessments are observational tools used to record and measure detailed aggressive behaviours (SASBA focusses on sexualised aggression) in patients with brain injuries. This allows teams to understand whether changes to care are effective by comprehensively measuring changes in behaviour.
Open a new OASMNR / SASBA form by either:
Holding Alt (or ‘Option’ on Mac) from anywhere within Melo and:
Pressing O for a new OASMNR
Pressing S for a new SASBA
Opening the side navigation bar and clicking “+OASMNR” or “+SASBA”
Choose a patient
Choose the time of behaviour (default is time that the form was opened)
Choose a type of behaviour (if two different behaviour types occurred simultaneously then choose the most severe)
Choose a behaviour severity
Choose the number of occurences by clicking the +/- buttons or typing a number directly in
Choose any optional contributing factors
Choose an antecedent (the last thing observed by staff before the behaviour occurred). If no options match your observation then choose “Other” and enter something new.
Choose an intervention (the last action taken by staff before the behaviour ended). If no options match your observation then choose “Other” and enter something new.
Turn on the Create more switch to open a fresh form for the same patient immediately after submitting one (this can be useful during live observation of continuous behaviours)
Click “Submit”