NCT05606393

Establishment of Virtual Reality System for Stroke Patients With Aphasia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Aphasia can significantly influence a person's social relationship and quality of life. To achieve positive language outcomes, an intensive and high-repetition speech therapy is essential. However, due to the limited number of speech therapists, the intensity and frequency of training are often insufficient. Therefore, it is critical to develop other rehabilitation approaches to enhance the benefits of aphasia intervention. Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive and interactive computer simulation technology that can promote the ecological validity of speech therapy. In this study, we develop an innovative VR software for speech training to explore the effects of VR on various aspects of language outcomes.

Detailed description

We randomly assigned study participants into 2 groups: the traditional speech therapy (ST) group and the traditional ST with additional VR training (ST+VR) group. In the ST group, each participant received 1-hour traditional ST for each session. In the ST+VR group, an additional 30-minute VR training was administered immediately after each session of traditional ST. All participants received 3 sessions of treatment every week for 3 weeks. For outcome measurement, we administered Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT) at 3 different time points: before treatment, 1 day and 3 months after the completion of treatment.

Conditions

• Aphasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	virtual reality speech training	virtual reality speech training that focuses on receptive and expressive aspects of language, through a newly developed interactive virtual reality software
OTHER	traditional speech therapy	traditional speech therapy in current clinical use, that focuses on language comprehension, naming, fluency, repetition.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-07
• Primary completion: 2023-04-01
• Completion: 2023-10-01
• First posted: 2022-11-04
• Last updated: 2022-11-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan