Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasia Before and After Speech Therapy

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Jaw Cancer; Intelligibility, Speech; Oral Cancer; Tongue Cancer

Treatments: Other: Speech therapy exercises for swallowing; Other: Speech-language guidance; Other: Speech therapy exercises for speech

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04126226

96487218300005327

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to verify the impact of four speech therapy sessions on the Quality of Life of patients treated for malignant tongue and/or jaw cancer, using as measure specific questionnaires of speech and swallowing.

The hypothesis is that after treatment with exercises and speech therapy guidance, patients will present better indicators on Quality of Life related to speech and swallowing.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 18 Years
• Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasm
• Submitted to surgical treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Under 18 Years
• Cognitive impairment or deficits in language comprehension
• Previous speech therapy intervention
• Recurrence or active disease
• Death during the intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Study group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Speech-language guidance

Other: Speech therapy exercises for swallowing

Other: Speech therapy exercises for speech

Control Group

No Intervention group