Clinical trial NCT03699605: Development and Feasibility Analysis of Verbal Expressive Skills Management Programme (VESMP) for Patients With Broca Aphasia
Official title: Development and Feasibility Analysis of Verbal Expressive Skills Management Programme (VESMP) for Patients With Broca Aphasia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Aphasia, Broca
Stroke
Keywords: Stroke
Aphasia
Broca Aphasia
communication skills
Verbal expressive skill management programme
Lead sponsor: Isra University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-10-09
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The two groups were included for speech therapy. For any given subject, aphasia severity evaluations were completed on the same day.includes patients that are 40+ years old, and have three months of post stroke with diagnosis of chronic Broca's Aphasias, each patient received treatment for 4 months that includes 04 VESMP sessions per week with each session being 30-45 minutes long. The measurement will be taken at 0 week (baseline) after 16 weeks.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The present study was conducted to develop the verbal expressive skills management programme (VESMP) to enhance verbal expressive skills of patients with severe Broca aphasia. To determine the efficacy of VESMP in improving the quality of life and level of satisfaction of aphasic stroke patients.Control group received traditional therapy and experimental group received therapy through VESMP programme on their smart phones.

Detailed description: Speech therapy makes an integral part of the non-pharmacological, conservative management of Post stroke aphasia. Routine speech therapy aims to improve comprehension and verbal skills and also develop functional communication skills through augmentative Alternative communication devices. Disorders of communication, including aphasia (mainly post stroke) caused by the left hemisphere brain damage, is a major community health issue. Aphasia is a language disorder occurring mainly as a result of stroke. It is an acquired impairment of language that weakens people's ability of comprehension and expression, it does not show any affect to intellect ability. The verbal expressive skills management programme (VESMP) is the software which developed augmented management for patients to enhance verbal expressive skills for patients with severe Broca's aphasia from different geographic areas.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The 40-60 year Broca aphasia patients
* The severe Broca aphasia patients (more than 03 month of onset of stroke) Both infarct and hemorrhagic stroke
* Either gender Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* • Broca Aphasic patients having cognitive impairment

  * The patients having tumors, infections and trauma

Primary outcomes:
measure: Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Battery (BDAE)
timeFrame: 16 weeks
measure: Stroke Quality of life Scale
timeFrame: 16 weeks
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Locations:
city: Rawalpindi
country: Pakistan
facility: Pakistan Railway Hospital
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