Irony Comprehension Ability of Chinese Speaking Patients With TBI

Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Preliminary Study on Irony Comprehension Ability of Chinese Speaking Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04161573
• Other study ID #: 201908029RINA
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: October 10, 2019
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: Hsin-Tzu Tseng
• Phone: +886 978108036
• Email: s0480052[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims at understanding irony comprehension ability of Chinese speaking patients with TBI through a series of self-made stories. Each story contains two characters having a conversation, and one of them would give a figurative (which is, ironic) or literal statement at the end of the story. The participants are asked to figure out its meaning.

Description:

The investigator plans to recruit TBI patients and control group whose gender and age accord with them, 15 people in each group. They would be asked to read the materials mentioned above displaying by a computer. It may take 30 minutes per time, and every participants only do once.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Above 20 years old

• Chinese speaking people

• Diagnosed as TBI patients for over 6 months

• Having no other neurological and mental related problems

• Able to read with or without assistive device like glasses

Exclusion Criteria:

• Addicted to alcohol or drug morbid and postmorbid

• Having any communication disorders

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Brain Injuries
• Brain Injuries, Traumatic
• Traumatic Brain Injury

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Watching ironic stories
All the participants would be asked to watch a series of self-made stories which are figurative or literal. They have to figure out what is the real meaning of the character's statement. The whole procedure will be done with a computer.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

References & Publications (2)

Angeleri R, Bosco FM, Zettin M, Sacco K, Colle L, Bara BG. Communicative impairment in traumatic brain injury: a complete pragmatic assessment. Brain Lang. 2008 Dec;107(3):229-45. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.01.002. Epub 2008 Feb 11. — View Citation

Carlomagno S, Giannotti S, Vorano L, Marini A. Discourse information content in non-aphasic adults with brain injury: a pilot study. Brain Inj. 2011;25(10):1010-8. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2011.605097. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	TBI group gets lower scores	We assume that TBI group can't comprehend ironic statement as well as their control group. Therefore, they may get lower score than their normal- health control group.	2 months