The St Andrew’s–Swansea Neurobehavioural Outcome Scale (SASNOS) was developed to address a critical gap in brain injury rehabilitation: the need for a reliable, valid, and sensitive measure of Neurobehavioural Disability (NBD) following acquired brain injury (ABI).
SASNOS offers a range of benefits to healthcare providers, commissioners, researchers, and brain injury professionals:
🧠 Purpose-Built for ABI
- Specifically designed for ABI
- Developed using the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework
🛠️ Clinical and Service Utility
- Suitable to inform treatment goals and track progress over time
- Sensitive to detecting meaningful change
- Optional dependency ratings allow item-level weighting to reflect levels of support
- Repeat assessment enables monitoring of rehabilitation efficacy
💬 Communication and Care Planning
- Provides a common framework and shared language for multidisciplinary teams
- Supports continuity of care across services
- Supports service planning, benchmarking, and audit activities
🌍 Flexible and Scalable
- Applicable across diverse clinical and research settings
- Used internationally and available in multiple languages
- Embedded in electronic patient record systems in several services
📊 Psychometric Strength
- Robust psychometric properties: validity, reliability, and responsiveness
- Normative data available for meaningful interpretation
- Available in both self-report and proxy-rated formats
- Standardised scoring for consistent interpretation and tracking
💡 Decision-Making and Cost Evaluation
- Can inform resource allocation and service-level cost effectiveness
- Suitable for evaluating service outcomes and demonstrating impact
For further insight into the use of SASNOS in practice – and the benefits reported across clinical, research, and service settings – please visit our testimonials page.