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Effects of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) Via Telerehabilitation on Word Finding in Post-stroke Aphasia.

NCT06096662 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2025-06-12

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Summary

Despite evidence showing that speech and language intervention may improve language and communication abilities in people with acquired language disorders (aphasia), there is still need for evidence for which types of therapy are effective. Further, to improve accessibility of care, there is increasing need for evidence of intervention effects when therapy is provided online, via telerehabilitation. Therefore, the project aims at evaluating the effects of telerehabilitation with a specific speech-language therapy intervention for improving word-finding in individuals with aphasia due to stroke. The intervention Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) trains word finding at sentence level, and the treatment effect is expected to generalize to the production of connected speech.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Verb Network Strenghtening Treatment (VNeST)

Participants are presented with a verb (representing an activity, for example, to drive) orally and in writing. The participants are first asked to name someone who may perform a given activity (an agent/subject, for example a chauffeur), then to name an object which the named activity can pe performed with (a patient/object, for example a limousine). Several types of semantic cues and assistance are given if the participant has difficulties finding adequate nouns). This procedure is repeated for three different agents and objects related to the given verb. The participants is then asked to choose one of the three sentences participants have created and expand on it by telling where, when and why the agents are performing the activity. After this, the participants are given sentences (with several foils) including the activity as well as agents and objects/patients, and are asked to indicate whether the sentences are plausible or not.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Swedish Research Council

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  • Vastra Gotaland Region

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Principal Investigators

  • Francesca Longoni, Dr. · Inst of Neurosci & Physiology, Speech & Language Pathology Unit, University of Gothenburg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
99 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-01
Primary Completion
2024-07-09
Completion
2024-07-09

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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