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

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

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00027825

Enrollment

Registered

2022-01-13

Start date

2022-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-10-06

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Conditions

G20

Interventions

Group 1: LSVT Coach – speech teletherapy

60 minutes, 4 times per week for 4 weeks Group 2: LSVT-LOUD – face-to-face speech therapy

60 minutes, 4 times per week for 4 weeks

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

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

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
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

Measure	Time frame
1 Voice-related impairment or disability as assessed by the patient themself, assessed by the German version of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) 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) 3 Depression, recorded using the Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II 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)	—

Measure

Time frame

1 Voice-related impairment or disability as assessed by the patient themself, assessed by the German version of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) 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) 3 Depression, recorded using the Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II 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)

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Countries

Austria

Contacts

Public ContactElisabeth Kratz

Logopädische Praxis Prof. Elisabeth Kratz

info@kratz.at+43 0664 212 85 62

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026