Clinical Utility of Olfactory Rehabilitation: Treatment for Pacients With Neurosensorial Anosmia

Cristina Gomez Calero

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Therapy; Anosmia; Brain Injuries, Traumatic

Treatments: Behavioral: olfactory rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04957563

09/79 (HUFA)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of our study was to compare the recovery of smell in people suffering posttraumatic olfactory impairment following a systematic olfactory rehabilitation performed by occupational therapists to natural recovery in a control posttraumatic group of patients.

Full description

Forty participants started the study: 20 for the control group and 20 for the treatment group. The mean of the time span between the traumatic event and the first visit in the rehabilitation group was longer than 22 months, time enough to wait any kind of spontaneous recovery.

In order to establish correct comparisons, the investigators analyzed whether both groups of participants (control group and treatment group) were homogeneous or not regarding the age, gender, time span between the traumatic event and the first visit to the office, brain damage and loss of conscience. Investigators administered visual analogic scale (VAS), CCCRC olfactory test and quality of life questionnaire (RSDI) to both groups at the beginning of the study and 12 months late

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Olfactory loss participants from institution to the Smell & Tast Office, Otorhinolaryngology Unit, Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón.

All participants provided written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• No sign informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental rehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

recived olfactory rehabilitation

Treatment:

Behavioral: olfactory rehabilitation

control

No Intervention group

Description:

withouth olfactory rehabilitation