Clinical Trial: Efficacy of Telerehabilitation in the Patients With Aphasia

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Efficacy of Telerehabilitation in the Patients With Aphasia

Brief Summary:

The study will invite 30 patients to join, and they will be arranged in the face to face group and telerehabilitation group randomly.

In the telerehabilitation group, the investigators use the mobile device, which with the camera and speaker, for patients to practice the naming training at home, and assess the speech ability every 2-4weeks by speech therapist via telerehabilitation platform.

Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT) and ASHA FACS conceptual framework Test will be used as the assessment tool for evaluation speech ability and functional ability.

The investigators expect that patients can improve their speech ability, functional ability, and quality of life via telerehabilitation speech therapy.

And the investigators can establish the standard telerehabilitation speech therapy protocol for aphasia therapy.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.

Current Primary Outcome: Concise Chinese Aphasia Test [ Time Frame: monthly changes within 3 months ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital.

Dates:
Date Received: December 27, 2011
Date Started: January 2012
Date Completion:
Last Updated: February 23, 2016
Last Verified: February 2016