NCT04966689

The Effect of Combined Speech and Music-therapy on the Speech Characteristics of People With Parkinson's Disease (PD)

Comparison of The Effect of Speech Therapy , Music-therapy and Combined Speech and Music Therapy on the Vocal Characteristics of People With PD by Using Telerehabilitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: Iran University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Speech and voice disorders are observed in almost 90% of patients with PD during their course of illness. Reduced voice pitch inflections or monotone speech, reduced vocal loudness, prosody disorders, the imprecise articulation of the consonants, hoarseness, and breathy voice is also observed in patients with PD; these symptoms often lead to reduced speech intelligibility. The aim of this study will to investigate the possible changes in the voice and speech features in people with PD after a combined speech and music therapy using Telerehabilitation.

Detailed description

the investigators of this study propose to conduct a pilot randomized, controlled trial in patients with PD to assess the potential effectiveness of a Telerehabilitation intervention that encourage a higher level of speech performance. The investigators hypothesize that patients in the combined treatment group will have more and better improve in the study outcome measures after treatment and 3 month follow up, as compared with patients in speech therapy group and music therapy group.

Conditions

• Speech Disorders
• Voice Disorders
• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	combined speech and music therapy	he telerehabilitation intervention that include both speech therapy and music therapy at the same time
BEHAVIORAL	speech therapy	A behavioural speech therapy program including breathing exercises, loudness, pitch, and intelligibility which are adapted from Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) and voice exercises Which is delivered through telerehabilitation
BEHAVIORAL	music therapy	music exercises Will be designed based on the music therapy protocols of previous studies Which is delivered through telerehabilitation

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-17
• Primary completion: 2022-01-07
• Completion: 2022-01-30
• First posted: 2021-07-19
• Last updated: 2023-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran