Efficacy of Telerehabilitation in the Patients With Aphasia

Aphasia Clinical Trial

Official title:

Efficacy of Telerehabilitation in the Patients With Aphasia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02694133
• Other study ID #: VGHKS-CT11-06
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 27, 2011
• Last updated: February 23, 2016
• Start date: January 2012
• Est. completion date: December 2012

Study information

• Verified date: February 2016
• Source: Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will invite 30 patients to join, and they will be arranged in the face to face group and telerehabilitation group randomly.

In the telerehabilitation group, the investigators use the mobile device, which with the camera and speaker, for patients to practice the naming training at home, and assess the speech ability every 2-4weeks by speech therapist via telerehabilitation platform.

Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT) and ASHA FACS conceptual framework Test will be used as the assessment tool for evaluation speech ability and functional ability.

The investigators expect that patients can improve their speech ability, functional ability, and quality of life via telerehabilitation speech therapy.

And the investigators can establish the standard telerehabilitation speech therapy protocol for aphasia therapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 4
• Est. completion date: December 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients diagnosed as aphasia

Exclusion Criteria:

• poor auditory comprehension

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Aphasia

Intervention

Procedure:
• Smart Phone Based Assistive Speech Therapeutic System
use the mobile device, which with the camera and speaker, for patients to practice the naming training at home, and assess the speech ability every 2-4weeks by speech therapist via telerehabilitation platform. Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT) will be used as the assessment tool for evaluation speech ability and functional ability.
• Mobile phone-based tele rehabilitation program
Mobile phone-based tele rehabilitation program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Concise Chinese Aphasia Test		monthly changes within 3 months	No