Comparison between face-to-face and online voice and speech training in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease - a randomised pilot study
- Conditions
- G20Parkinson 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
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.
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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method 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>