Executive Training and Anomia Therapy in Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia

Combining Executive Training and Anomia Therapy in Chronic Post-stroke Aphasia : a Single Case Experimental Design -SCED Preliminary Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05101408

Acronym

ETAT PSA

Enrollment

Registered

2021-11-01

Start date

2021-09-01

Completion date

2021-12-30

Last updated

2022-04-12

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Conditions

Anomia, Post-stroke Aphasia

Keywords

Aphasia, Speech-Language Therapy, Anomia, Executive functions

Brief summary

Aphasia is a devastating acquired language impairment mainly caused by stroke, in which anomia is a quintessential clinical feature. If speech-language therapy (SLT) has been shown to be effective for persons with aphasia, the relative efficiency of one SLT strategy over another remains a matter of debate. The influential relationship between language, executive functions and aphasia rehabilitation outcomes has been addressed in a number of studies, but only few of them have studied the effect of adding an executive training to linguistic therapies.The aim of this study is to measure the efficiency of a protocol combining anomia therapy and executive training on naming skills and discourse in post-stroke aphasic persons at the chronic stage

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* 18 \< age \> 80 years * adult person with chronic post-stroke aphasia (\> 6 months postonset) * receiving SLT rehabilitation 3 times a Week

Exclusion criteria

* presence of apraxia of speech * major impairment of comprehension * history of other neurological or psychiatric disease

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Evolution of individual naming scores	2 days	Evolution of individual naming scores during baseline and treatment phases Participants are asked to name pictures from a personal naming task constituted of 100 black and white pictures and scores are expressed as percent of correct responses (min 0, max 100): higher percents meaning a better outcome. A visual analysis of the evolution of these scores along the course of the treatment will be conducted.
Comparison of discourse	2 days	Comparison of discourse scores before and after the treatment For each participant, four different samples of discourse are elicited before and after the treatment (picture description, personal narrative, book supported narrative, procedural information). The mean number of correct words per minute is then computed for each participant, and compared between the two time points, higher scores meaning a better outcome.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Comparison of executive scores	2 days	Comparison of executive scores before and after the treatment Executive scores are computed before and after treatment for each participant, from the Modified Card Sorting Test (Nelson, 1976), in which higher number of categories achieved means a better outcome, and from a verbal fluency task in which higher number of words produced in 2 minutes means a better outcome

Countries

France

Outcome results