Behavioural data
These articles explain how to record assessments and supporting behaviours against patients.
- OASMNR & SASBA (Overt Aggression Scale Modified for NeuroRehab & St. Andrew's Sexualised Behaviour Scale)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.
- ABC (Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence)
- ABC-Plus (Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence)The ABC Plus is a more structured, richer version of the ABC form. It can additionally capture positive behaviours, sleep, and observation duration. It also contains more behaviour options with severity-descriptions. This aligns different people on what "moderate" means, for example. Finally, negative submissions calculate a weighted-severity meaning that ABC Plus observations are directly comparable to other Melo behavioural assessments.
- ABS (Agitated Behaviour Scale)ABS forms measure how present 14 behaviour types are in a patient whilst they’re being observed, from absent through to extreme. Answer each question with your best estimate.
- Updating & deleting assessmentsThis page describes all things assessment-management. Assessments are all stored in a filterable list and can be updated or deleted.
- How Melo equates severity levels between assessment typesMelo contains multiple assessment types for capturing agitation, each with their own severity scale. To simplify severity analysis across multiple assessment types Melo ‘equates’ these severity levels enabling a more holistic view.
- Care tipsCare tips act as a patient-specific toolbox for caring effectively for them. People enter what's worked for them when working with this patient, and others can upvote these tips. This results in a validated list of personalised strategies.
- Key eventsKey events are timestamp markers which can be annotated onto timeseries graphs to highlight things like a change in care strategy or day-trips. This can be useful to determine if behaviour changes around these times.
- "Negative behaviours (prev. 48h)" widgetThis widget is designed to show which patients have been agitated the most, recently. the colourful badges represent the equated severity scale across all assessment types (ABC, etc.). The list is sorted primarily by most-negative-assessments within the timeframe, followed by severity.
- Strategies Strategies act as a structured, auditable toolkit that enables your team to propose, trial and evaluate personalised behavioural strategies across care settings. Designed to replace informal whiteboard systems, Strategies enables your team to build a personalised, evidence-based record of what works, and what doesn’t for each patient.