NCT06200025

Virtual Reality in Aphasia Rehabilitation

The Virtual Reality Rises; The Fall of The Aphasia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abant Izzet Baysal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Virtual reality-based aphasia rehabilitation has been shown to improve the language skills of individuals with aphasia in the chronic period after stroke. However, non-immersive or semi-immersive rehabilitation methods have often been adopted in the studies. Considering the importance of the visual given to the patient for naming, it can be thought that full immersive therapy may be more effective. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cue-based aphasia naming therapy in a fully immersive virtual reality environment on aphasia severity and aphasia-related quality of life and to compare it with standard cue treatments.

Conditions

• Stroke, Ischemic
• Aphasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cue-based speech therapy in virtual reality	Treatment applied with virtual reality headsets to provide 3d visual and auditory cues to individuals in a virtual environment. A treatment environment where the provision of cues can be controlled by the therapist, interacting with 3d clues and receiving feedback on the accuracy of the named objects.
OTHER	Cue-based speech therapy	Treatment involving the assessment of language skills and the presentation of communication strategies to the individual, including the use of personalized phonological cues.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-15
• Primary completion: 2023-07-01
• Completion: 2023-09-15
• First posted: 2024-01-10
• Last updated: 2024-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)