Status:
COMPLETED
Adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy to Spanish
Lead Sponsor:
Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz
Conditions:
Post Stroke Aphasia
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study was conducted in three phases: The first phase involved creation of a Spanish adaptation of the Melodic Intonation therapy; the second phase consisted of a pilot non-randomized interventio...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients diagnosed with nonfluent aphasia due to unilateral stroke in the left hemisphere without neuroimaging evidence of lesions in the right hemisphere who fulfilled the following criteria:
- The time elapsed since the stroke exceeded 6 months.
- Patient had received a standard program of conventional speech therapy after stroke.
- Persistent nonfluent aphasia with the following characteristics:
- Severely restricted language, which might be limited to meaningless stereotypy; unlike that observed in verbal tasks, the patient might produce some real and relevant words when singing familiar songs.
- Poor repetition, even for single words.
- Moderately preserved language comprehension.
- The nonstereotyped language was produced with a slurring of speech.
- The total score for the repetition did not exceed the 70th percentile in the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination. The score was obtained from the average score in three areas: repetition of words and repetition of phrases; listening comprehension exceeding the 15th percentile of Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination; and from the average score obtained in three areas: word comprehension, commands and complex ideational material.
- The patient was motivated, emotionally stable and had good attention.
- Signed informed consent was provided.
Exclusion
- patients with a history of a previous stroke other than the index event or with any clinical condition (e.g., short life expectancy, coexisting disease) or other characteristics that precluded appropriate follow-up in the study
- patients participating in any therapeutic intervention clinical trials evaluating poststroke recovery
- use of psychotropic drugs that interfere with patient evaluation.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03433495
Start Date
February 1 2010
End Date
July 1 2016
Last Update
February 14 2018
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