A Pilot Study to Investigate if Frequency of Therapy Alters Outcomes of the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) Programme for Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: ervous System Diseases: Parkinson's disease; Nervous System Diseases; Parkinson's disease

• Registration Number: ISRCTN40910122
• Lead Sponsor: Department of Health

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-09-30
• Last Update Posted: 17 October 2016

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients entering the study will have volunteered for the study and will have agreed to be randomly allocated to either a control group or one of two treatment groups.
2. A diagnosis of idiopathic PD
3. Categorised between stages 1 to 4 on the `Functional Rating Scale for Parkinson's Disease¿, Hoehn & Yahr (1967)
4. Neuropharmacologically stable before and during treatment
5. Fluent English speakers
6. Intelligibility of speech will have received a rating of between 5 and 9 on the Parkinson¿s disease disability rating scale. (Yorkston 1995)

Exclusion Criteria

1. Any history of a language deficit caused by a past event such as a cardiovascular event
2. Evidence of a cognitive deficit on the `Mini-Mental State Examination (score >24), Folstein et al 1975
3. Evidence of depression on the Beck Depression inventory (score <14), Beck & Beck 1972.
4. History of a chronic hearing loss or report/suspected hearing loss
5. History of laryngeal disease and will be free of acute cardiac and respiratory conditions during the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified