Stuttering and Anxiety

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety Disorders; Stuttering, Childhood

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Stuttering severity instrument-3; Diagnostic Test: Child Behavior Checklist for age 4-18

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03160586

SSI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stuttering was defined as a common neurodevelopmental speech disorder characterized by repetitions, prolongations, and interruptions in the flow of speech. In other words, stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by involuntary disruptions to speech which impede the capacity to communicate effectively.

Physiological and emotional anxiety has been reported in persons who stutter. It has been reported that as high as 44% of clients seeking treatment for stuttering could be assigned a co-occurring social phobia or social anxiety diagnosis.

Full description

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, social anxiety disorder is characterized by marked or intense fear of social or performance-based situations where scrutiny or evaluation by others may occur. Feared situations often include speaking in public, meeting new people, and talking with authority figures.

There are several reasons to expect that stuttering may be associated with social anxiety disorder. To begin with, stuttering is accompanied by numerous negative consequences across the lifespan which may increase vulnerability to social and psychological difficulties. These consequences are intensified during the school years when children become more involved in social and speaking situations. As a result, children and adolescents who stutter frequently experience peer victimization, social isolation and rejection, and they may also be less popular than their non-stuttering peers.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 16 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥ 6 years to 16 years
• Gender: both sex is included in the study
• Intelligence quotient ≥ 85

Exclusion criteria

• Intelligence quotient < 85
• Age below 6 years or above 16 years
• Presence of other speech, language or physical disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Stutter

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children who stuttering

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Child Behavior Checklist for age 4-18

Diagnostic Test: Stuttering severity instrument-3

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children who non stuttering

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Child Behavior Checklist for age 4-18