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Speech Intelligibility of Patients With P D Compared to First Degree Relatives of P D Patients

Speech Intelligibility of Patients With Parkinsons Disease at Different Stages of the Disease Compared to First Degree Relatives of Parkinson's Disease Patients

Status
Unknown
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
60 (estimated)
Sponsor
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
Sex
All
Age
20 Years – 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

This study will examine speech intelligibility of early parkinson's disease (PD) patients, early PD patients and first degree relatives. The investigators hypothesis that advanced PD patients will present decreased speech intelligibility more than early PD patients. Speech intelligibility of first degree relatives will be normal.

Detailed description

in order to achieve the study's goals objective and subjective research tools will be used. Objective tools include measuring phonation time, diadokokinetic movements of the oral structures and acoustic analysis . Subjective tools include self reported questionnaires.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2013-02-01
Primary completion
2013-11-01
Completion
2014-11-01
First posted
2013-01-28
Last updated
2013-01-28

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01776879. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.