Stuttering [stammering]
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention proposal for the control group (CG) will have its basis linked to traditional speech-language therapy. The intervention process in fluency disorders can occur in various ways, such as
cognitive interventions
motor speech intervention (combined or not with cognitive elements)
pharmacological interventions, among others. Classical speech-language therapy uses multiple elements formed by the permutation of the elements above. For the proposed therapy, the intervention for th
Behavioural
Other
E01.370.600.115
Sponsors
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Eligibility
Age
16 Years to 40 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Volunteers aged between 16 and 40 years of age; of both genders; previously diagnosed with Developmental Stuttering, with stuttering severity between scores of "Light to Moderate" and "Very Severe", based on Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults (SSI-3)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Volunteers aged out of the proposed; significant behavioral changes; psychiatric and/or cognitive disorders; attend some other type of speech therapy at another institution/clinic during the intervention; or irregular behavior or frequency, which may compromise the accuracy of the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults (SSI-3) - Expected Outcome I Reduction of post-intervention score in 10 points (5 points being more or less), veryfied by agreement between two blind evaluators, with 8 point minimum difference between the groups, with 5% significance level, in pre and post-interventions measurements. The parameters evaluated in the primary outcome are: frequency of disfluencies found, duration of stuttering episodes and physical concomitants, having equal weight in assessing the severity of stuttering. At the end of the study, it is expected to find a decrease in the final score obtained, and, consequently, the attenuation of the stuttering severity found before intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| GRBASI Scale - Expected Outcome II Decrease of the score in each degree of the scale, verified by the degree of agreement between the evaluators, with variation in 1 point (being 0.5 for more or less) in the pre and post intervention measurements. The parameters evaluated in this scale are: G - General Degree of Dysphonia; R - Rough; B - Breath; A - Asthenia; S - Strain; and I - Instability. It is expected a decrease in the score found post-intervention in each parameter, mainly in General, Rough and Strain.;Consensus of Perceptual-Auditory Assessment of Voice (CAPE-V) - Expected Outcome III Decrease in overall score and in each grade specified in the protocol, verified by the degree of agreement between two evaluators, with variation in 10 points (being 5 for more or less), in the pre- and post-intervention measurements. The parameters evaluated in this protocol are: general degree of vocal disorder, roughness, breathiness, strain, pitch, loudness and resonance. It is expected to find a decrease in the absolute scores found, mainly in the roughness and strain, as well as the general grade.;Noise Disturbances Measures (jitter, shimmer, GNE proportion) - Expected Outcome IV Decreased absolute values were found, verified by acoustic analysis from voice recording in the VoxMetria® program, based on the observation of a variation of at least 5% in the pre- and post-intervention measurements. The measures that will be analyzed are jitter, shimmer and GNE proportion, being expected the decrease of the absolute values found.;Phonation Deviation Diagram - Expected Outcome V Decrease in the absolute values found in the graph, verified by acoustic analysis from the voice recording in VoxMetria® program from the observation of a variation of at least 5% in the pre- and post-intervention measurements. The phonation deviation diagram is a graph from the crossing of values between glottic noise (GNE; axis of ordinates) and the measures of irregularity (jitter, shimmer axi | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactJorge Junior
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Outcome results
None listed