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Comparison between face-to-face and online voice and speech training in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease - a randomised pilot study

Not Applicable
Conditions
G20
Parkinson disease
Registration Number
DRKS00027825
Lead Sponsor
ogopädische Praxis Prof. Elisabeth Kratz
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
19
Inclusion Criteria

Age 18-99 years, Idiopathic Parkinson's disease diagnosed according to the United Kingdom Parkinson's Disease Society Brain Bank clinical diagnostic criteria, clinically stable and on dopaminergic medication, stages I-III on the Hoehn and Yahr scale (Hoehn & Yahr, 1967). Cognitive function intact to mild cognitive impairment based on =24/30 points of the Mini-Mental-Status-Test (MMST) (Folstein et al., 1975), neurologically diagnosed speech and voice disorder associated with Parkinson’s disease, fluent written and spoken German skills.

Exclusion Criteria

Concomitant disease e.g., other neurological, psychiatric or malignant diseases, voice and speech disorders independent of idiopathic Parkinson’s syndrome and uncorrected visual or hearing impairment.

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Voice range profile: pitch range (in Hz), voice intensity (in dB A), voice stability /dynamics and tone retention (s), measured by means of voice field measurement
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1 Voice-related impairment or disability as assessed by the patient themself, assessed by the German version of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI)<br>2 Communication-related quality of life in dysarthria, measured by the German version of the Quality of Life in the Dysarthric Speaker questionnaire (QoL-Dys-G)<br>3 Depression, recorded using the Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II<br>4 Health-related quality of life of people with Parkinson's syndrome, assessed by the German version of the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-39 (PDQ-39)<br>
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