NCT03699605

Development and Feasibility Analysis of Verbal Expressive Skills Management Programme (VESMP) for Patients With Broca Aphasia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Isra University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study was conducted to develop the verbal expressive skills management programme (VESMP) to enhance verbal expressive skills of patients with severe Broca aphasia. To determine the efficacy of VESMP in improving the quality of life and level of satisfaction of aphasic stroke patients.Control group received traditional therapy and experimental group received therapy through VESMP programme on their smart phones.

Detailed description

Speech therapy makes an integral part of the non-pharmacological, conservative management of Post stroke aphasia. Routine speech therapy aims to improve comprehension and verbal skills and also develop functional communication skills through augmentative Alternative communication devices. Disorders of communication, including aphasia (mainly post stroke) caused by the left hemisphere brain damage, is a major community health issue. Aphasia is a language disorder occurring mainly as a result of stroke. It is an acquired impairment of language that weakens people's ability of comprehension and expression, it does not show any affect to intellect ability. The verbal expressive skills management programme (VESMP) is the software which developed augmented management for patients to enhance verbal expressive skills for patients with severe Broca's aphasia from different geographic areas.

Conditions

• Aphasia, Broca
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	VESMP	. The application contains following seven domains: spontaneous speech, comprehension, naming, reading, writing, imitation and automated speech. The programme was developed in Urdu language which contains different daily functional words, phrases and sentences. Treatment stimuli consisted of images of objects along with auditory sounds of person and actions cues. The voice output can operate by pressing the selected picture with index finger. Participants received 1-16 weeks of therapy using software of two domains with different difficulty levels. Specifically the programme included seven domains within the software comprising of eight 30-45 minutes sessions (4 days per week for total 16weeks). The measurement will be taken at 0 week (baseline) after 16 weeks.
OTHER	Traditional Therapy	, All subjects participated in an traditional therapy group in routine and received MIT for 4 months of periods with three sessions per week to improve language skills.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-02
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-06-30
• First posted: 2018-10-09
• Last updated: 2019-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan