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Department of Veterans Affairs |
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Information provided by: | Department of Veterans Affairs |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00125216 |
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of Response Elaboration Training (RET), which is a speech/language therapy for aphasia. The study is designed to determine whether verbal language production improves in terms of content and length of utterances as a result of treatment.
Condition | Intervention |
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Aphasia Language Disorders Speech Disorders |
Behavioral: Response Elaboration Training |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Non-Randomized, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment, Efficacy Study |
Official Title: | Evaluation of the Effects of Response Elaboration Training for Aphasia |
Enrollment: | 47 |
Study Start Date: | December 2004 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2007 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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1 | Behavioral: Response Elaboration Training |
Detailed Description:
Extended description of the protocol, including information not already contained in other fields, such as comparison(s) studied.
Example:
Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) remains a significant cause of death, in spite of recent declines in overall mortality from cardiovascular disease. Existing methods of emergency resuscitation are inadequate due to time delays inherent in the transport of a trained responder with defibrillation capabilities to the side of the OOH-CA victim. Existing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems typically combine paramedic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) services with some level of community involvement, such as bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. Some communities include automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at isolated sites or in mobile police or fire vehicles. A comprehensive, integrated community approach to treatment with AEDs would have community units served by these volunteer non-medical responders who can quickly identify and treat a patient with OOH-CA. Such an approach is termed Public Access Defibrillation (PAD).
Comparison(s): Community units trained and equipped to provide public access defibrillation in addition to optimal standard care, compared to community units trained to provide optimal standard care (recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, 911 access, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
The purpose of the proposed research is to thoroughly evaluate the effects of Response Elaboration Training (RET) with persons with aphasia.
Specifically, the proposed research investigation is designed to delineate the outcomes that may be expected with RET. The study is also designed to improve outcomes in the area of stimulus generalization effects of treatment by testing a modification of RET designed to facilitate generalization. The specific experimental questions to be addressed are as follows:
Will RET result in increased production of correct information units and increased length and changes in composition of utterances as measured in
Will the effects* of RET vary among participants with fluent aphasia, participants with nonfluent aphasia who present with mild to moderate verbal production deficits, and participants with nonfluent aphasia who present with severe verbal production deficits?
A series of single-subject experimental designs across subjects, behaviors, and contexts will be conducted to address these questions. Twenty-four adults with chronic, moderate to severe aphasia secondary to unilateral, left-hemisphere brain-injury will serve as participants for this investigation.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 21 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, Utah | |
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City | |
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84148 |
Principal Investigator: | Julie L Wambaugh | VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City |
Responsible Party: | Department of Veterans Affairs ( Wambaugh, Julie - Principal Investigator ) |
Study ID Numbers: | C3719R |
Study First Received: | July 27, 2005 |
Last Updated: | March 5, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00125216 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
Aphasia Language Therapy Rehabilitation of speech and language disorders Speech-language pathology |
Signs and Symptoms Speech Disorders Aphasia Neurologic Manifestations |
Language Disorders Neurobehavioral Manifestations Communication Disorders |
Signs and Symptoms Speech Disorders Pathologic Processes Disease Aphasia |
Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Language Disorders Neurobehavioral Manifestations Communication Disorders |