NCT04126226

Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasia Before and After Speech Therapy

Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasia Before and After Speech Therapy: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to verify the impact of four speech therapy sessions on the Quality of Life of patients treated for malignant tongue and/or jaw cancer, using as measure specific questionnaires of speech and swallowing. The hypothesis is that after treatment with exercises and speech therapy guidance, patients will present better indicators on Quality of Life related to speech and swallowing.

Conditions

• Tongue Cancer
• Jaw Cancer
• Oral Cancer
• Intelligibility, Speech

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Speech-language guidance	Speech-language guidance for speech enhancement and on food management in terms of consistency, volumes, utensils and temperature, beyond the care for safe and efficient swallowing.
OTHER	Speech therapy exercises for swallowing	Use of lip exercises and facial muscles, laryngeal elevation maneuver and airway protection technique, 5 repetitions 3 times a day for a month.
OTHER	Speech therapy exercises for speech	Use of over-articulation technique and glottal firmness exercise, 5 repetitions 3 times a day for a month.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-31
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2019-10-15
• Last updated: 2019-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil