NCT05877950

The Effectiveness of Smartphone-Based Speech Therapy for People with Post-Stroke Dysarthria

A Prospective, Randomized, Multi-Centered Clinical Trial to Investigate the Effectiveness of Smartphone-Based Speech Therapy for People with Post-Stroke Dysarthria

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ewha Womans University Seoul Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This clinical trial aims to determine if a new smartphone-based speech therapy is effective self-treatment method for patients with post-stroke dysarthria. For this study, participants in the intervention group will use the speech therapy app for 1 hour per day, 5 days per week, over a 4-week period. The active control group will receive home-based speech therapy with the same duration and frequency as the intervention group. The study will help us understand if smartphone-based speech therapy is a viable treatment option for post-stroke dysarthria patients.

Detailed description

In this study, 100 patients with post-stroke dysarthria will be recruited and stratified into acute-subacute (within 1 month after index stroke) and chronic (after 6 months after index stroke) groups. Participants will then be randomly assigned to either the intervention or active control group. Patients in the intervention group will use a smartphone-based speech therapy app that includes oro-motor exercise, phonation, articulation, resonance, syllable repetition, and reading exercises. Treatment goals and contents will be determined based on individual patient conditions by a speech-language pathologist after the baseline evaluation. Participants will receive daily sessions for 1 hour per day, 5 days per week, over a 4-week period. Patients in the active control group will receive home-based speech therapy, which includes oro-motor exercises and reading tasks from a workbook, for the same frequency as the intervention group. Both groups will also receive usual stroke care. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of mobile-based speech therapy compared to home-based speech therapy in improving speech intelligibility scores 4 weeks after baseline for patients with dysarthria in the acute-subacute and chronic phases following stroke.

Conditions

• Dysarthria As Late Effect of Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Smartphone-based speech therapy	Participants will be instructed to use the speech therapy app for 1 hour per day (5 days for 1 week) over a 4-week period.
OTHER	Home-based speech therapy	Participants will receive treatment maintaining the same frequency as the intervention group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2023-05-26
• Last updated: 2024-08-30