Effect of Intensive Language Therapy in Subacute Stroke Patients

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Stroke; Language

Treatments: Procedure: language rehabilitation therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03168373

2016-07-147

Details and patient eligibility

About

Early stroke rehabilitation is known to be an effective and essential therapy in gaining functional independence and preventing complications. However, there was no consensus of proper amount of language rehabilitation in stroke patients. In this study, the investigators investigated the effects of the intensive language rehabilitation during subacute phase to improve language function in patients with first-ever strokes.

Full description

Intensive language rehabilitation group - language rehabilitation therapy by language therapist for 1 hours on every working day for 4 weeks

Conventional language rehabilitation group

• language rehabilitation therapy by language therapist for 30 minutes on every working day for 4 weeks

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Acute first-ever stroke
• Left hemispheric stroke
• Korean version of Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test(K-FAST) < 25 (less than 65 years old), K-FAST <20 (65 years old and more than 65 years old) at 7 days after stroke onset
• Right handedness

Exclusion criteria

• Transient ischemic stroke

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

Intensive group

Experimental group

Description:

language rehabilitation therapy by language therapist for 1 hours on every working day for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: language rehabilitation therapy

Conventional group

Active Comparator group

Description:

language rehabilitation therapy by language therapist for 30 minutes on every working day for 4 weeks

Treatment:

Procedure: language rehabilitation therapy