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Correlation Between Personnality Traits and Ability to Learn Oroesophageal Voice

NCT06856863 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-12-04

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Summary

After total laryngectomy and loss of laryngeal phonation, the oro-oesophageal voice (VOO) is a communication option for the patient. It involves little financial outlay and, when mastered, ensures functional communication, but requires time-consuming speech therapy. VOO acquisition depends on a number of factors, including the patient's physiology, personality and socio-cultural environment. Several authors have suggested the influence of psychology on failure to learn VOO, but the studies found in the literature are old and did not use personality tests to objectivize this link through quantitative analysis. Today, the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-125) is a personality test used clinically and in research, and appreciated for the quantitative scores it provides.

The aim of our study is to ascertain whether salient personality traits (as measured by the TCI) are common to patients who succeed in learning VOO, compared with those who do not.

40 subjects who underwent total laryngectomy and had access to speech therapy will be included in this study. A speech assessment with audio recording will be performed and acoustic measurements will be taken. Subjects will also take the TCI-125. Finally, a perceptual evaluation by a jury of experts will categorize the subjects as good or poor speakers.

Inclusion period: 24 months Duration of subject participation: 1 day Total duration: 36 months

Conditions

  • Laryngectomy
  • Total Pharyngo-laryngectomy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Test of personality : questionnary

The questionnary Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) describes personality through temperament traits governed by the individual's neurobiological systems and predetermined by heredity; and character traits shaped by social and cognitive experience

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-10-14
Primary Completion
2027-10-14
Completion
2028-10-14

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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