Cognitive stimulation and language rehabilitation of people with language impairment after stroke
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Treatment of cognition and functional communication on people with chronic aphasiaNervous System Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN19176792
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Hong Kong
- Brief Summary
2022 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2022.2096873 (added 20/12/2022)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 53
Inclusion Criteria
1. Native speakers of Cantonese
2. Chronic aphasia with onset more than 6 months
3. No reported progressive neurogenic etiologies (e.g. dementia, Parkinson’s Disease)
4. No motor speech disorders of moderate to a severe level
5. No reported hearing and visual impairments
6. Age 18 years or above
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with other neurogenic disorders such as dementia, Parkinson's disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Ability in a conversation, measured using short stories depicted in comics and short videos which the participant must converse the meaning with a communication partner who is naïve to the content.<br> 2. Cognitive performance:<br> 2.1 Digit span forward and backward<br> 2.2 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test<br> 2.3 Test of Nonverbal Intelligence<br> 2.4 Attention Network Test<br> 2.5 Stroop Color-word Test<br> Pre-treatment assessment will be carried out twice with all the language and cognitive tasks described above; three more assessments were conducted in the 8th, 12th, and 20th week, corresponding to the performance of PWA in the middle of the treatment block, immediate post-treatment and eight-week post-treatment, respectively.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The Cantonese version of the Main Concept Analysis (Kong, 2011) conducted at baseline and in the 8th, 12th, and 20th week. The participants' verbal descriptions based on four sets of picture-sequence were audio-recorded. The number of main concepts (i.e. number of statement that contained one verb with one or more pieces of essential information that are accurate in relation to the picture stimuli) produced by each participant was calculated and compared with normative data.