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ArticleBMJ open2020

Investigating a new tablet-based telerehabilitation app in patients with aphasia: a randomised, controlled, evaluator-blinded, multicentre trial protocol.

Arif Sinan Uslu, Stephan M Gerber, Nadine Schmidt, Carina Röthlisberger, Patric Wyss, Tim Vanbellingen, Sandra Schaller, Corina Wyss, Monica Koenig-Bruhin, Thomas Berger and 4 more

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Article in BMJ open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03228264 (A Randomized Controlled, Evaluator-blinded, Multi-center Trial Investigating Telerehabilitation as an add-on to Face-to-face Speech and Language Therapy in Post-stroke Aphasia.), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 · The registry

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A Randomized Controlled, Evaluator-blinded, Multi-center Trial Investigating Telerehabilitation as an add-on to Face-to-face Speech and Language Therapy in Post-stroke Aphasia.

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of BernRan2018 to 2021Enrolled21ConditionsAphasia, Chronic Stroke, Post Stroke SeizureArmsteleSLT, teleCT
3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arif Sinan UsluGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Stephan M GerberGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Nadine SchmidtGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Carina RöthlisbergerGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Patric WyssGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Tim VanbellingenGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Sandra SchallerDepartment of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Corina WyssDepartment of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Monica Koenig-BruhinNeurocenter, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland.
Thomas BergerDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Thomas NyffelerNeurocenter, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland.
René MüriDepartment of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Tobias NefARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Prabitha UrwylerGerontechnology and Rehabilitation Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland prabitha.urwyler@artorg.unibe.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-7641-8898
University of Bern · CHLuzerner Kantonsspital · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAphasia is a common language disorder acquired after stroke that reduces the quality of life of affected patients. The impairment is frequently accompanied by a deficit in cognitive functions. The state-of-the-art therapy is speech and language therapy but recent findings highlight positive effects of high-frequency therapy. Telerehabilitation has the potential to enable high-frequency therapy for patients at home. This study investigates the effects of high-frequency telerehabilitation speech and language therapy (teleSLT) on language functions in outpatients with aphasia compared with telerehabilitative cognitive training. We hypothesise that patients training with high-frequency teleSLT will show higher improvement in language functions and quality of life compared with patients with high-frequency tele-rehabilitative cognitive training (teleCT). METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This study is a randomised controlled, evaluator-blinded multicentre superiority trial comparing the outcomes following either high-frequency teleSLT or teleCT. A total of 100 outpatients with aphasia will be recruited and assigned in a 1:1 ratio stratified by trial site and severity of impairment to one of two parallel groups. Both groups will train over a period of 4 weeks for 2 hours per day. Patients in the experimental condition will devote 80% of their training time to teleSLT and the remaining 20% (24 min/day) to teleCT, vice versa for patients in the control condition. The primary outcome measure is the understandability of verbal communication on the Amsterdam Nijmegen Everyday Language Test and secondary outcome measures are intelligibility of the verbal communication, impairment of receptive and expressive language functions, confrontation naming. Other outcomes measures are quality of life and acceptance (usability and subjective experience) of the teleSLT system. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study is approved by the Ethics Committee Bern (ID 2016-01577). Results will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT03228264.

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AphasiaMobile ApplicationsTelerehabilitationEquivalence Trials as TopicHumansMulticenter Studies as TopicQuality of LifeRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSpeech Therapyneurological injuryneurologyrehabilitation medicinestroketelemedicine

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PMID33177134
PMCPMC7661375
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