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Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercise in Velopharyngeal Dysfunction in Patients With Cleft Palate

NCT03966482 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2019-05-29

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Summary

Analyze the effect of SOVTE (Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercise), with high resistance tube, on the velopharyngeal mechanism, for speech rehabilitation of twelve patients with cleft palate with vocal alterations, after four weeks. The study was developed in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. The hypothesis of the study is that after four weeks of exclusive therapy with exercise it will be improvement in the voice of patients with cleft palate.

Conditions

  • Cleft Palate

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group before-after

The group was submitted to four weeks of speech therapy intervention with Semiocluded vocal tract exercise. The 12 participants were evaluated before and after the intervention with a multidimensional evaluation comprised of analysis of images generated by specialized videonasoendoscopy software, analysis of speech emissions by perceptual-auditory evaluation and acoustic analysis, and vocal self-assessment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marcus Vinicius M Collares, MD, PhD · Chief of plastic surgery of Clinicas Hospital of Porto Alegre's

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-05-01
Primary Completion
2017-10-26
Completion
2017-11-28

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