NCT04420793

Voice Changes During ECT

Voice Analysis in Patients Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 11 (actual)
• Sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Depressed patients talk differently when they are depressed compared to when they are well. But it is hard to actually measure what the differences are. The study team will record voice samples from patients with mood disturbances, like depression, over the course of their receiving an electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) series. The study team will try and measure or quantify exactly what has changed in their speech and voice. The study team will choose ECT as it is one of the most effective and rapid treatment for depression. The study team will use a service provided by a company, NeuroLex, who has complex computer programs (artificial intelligence, AI) to analyze the voice samples.

Conditions

• Unipolar Depression
• Bipolar Depression
• Bipolar Disorder, Manic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	3 voice recording tasks and 1 text entry task will be performed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-07
• Primary completion: 2021-02-17
• Completion: 2021-02-17
• First posted: 2020-06-09
• Last updated: 2024-10-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States