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Trial reportAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2023

Efficacy of Aphasia Group Conversation Treatment via Telepractice on Language and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.

Madeline Dunne, Elizabeth Hoover, Gayle DeDe

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Trial report in American journal of speech-language pathology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Madeline DunneBoston University, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-1140-6340
Elizabeth HooverBoston University, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-1315-9742
Gayle DeDeTemple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Boston University · USGoogle (United States) · US

Funding

Understanding the Mechanisms of Change and Optimal Parameters in Conversation Treatment for AphasiaR01DC018781 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI DEDE, GAYLE L, HOOVER, ELIZABETH L · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
A comparison of the effects of dosage and group dynamics on discourse outcomes in aphasiaR21DC015859 · NIDCD · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI HOOVER, ELIZABETH L · 2017 to 2019
$499k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC018781NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC015859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeConversation treatment for people with aphasia (PwA) can lead to significant changes in language impairment and quality of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the greater use of telepractice treatment delivery. However, there is little evidence regarding the efficacy of telepractice conversation groups. This study investigated the effects of telepractice group conversation treatment on standardized measures of language function and socially oriented/patient-reported outcomes compared to in-person and no-treatment control data.

methodThis study used a mixed within- and between-groups design (repeated measure/pre-post treatment), with a single-subject delayed treatment design (Shadish & Rindskopf, 2007) to establish baseline, pretreatment, and posttreatment periods for the telepractice group. Telepractice results pre- and posttreatment were compared with historical in-person and no-treatment control data obtained from a larger randomized control trial (RCT) from DeDe et al. (2019). The historical comparison data were a subset of RCT participants from the same location and included six in-person participants and seven no-treatment control group participants.

resultsResults of standardized testing conducted at baseline, pretreatment, and posttreatment intervals revealed significant improvement from pre- to posttreatment on repetition and picture description tasks for the telepractice group, and significant improvement from pre- to posttreatment on the Aphasia Communication Outcome Measure, total number of relevant utterances, and percentage of complete utterances for the in-person conversation group. No significant differences were observed in the no-treatment groups.

conclusionsIn contrast to the no-treatment condition, both the in-person and telepractice conditions showed the benefits of conversation group treatment. The in-person treatment condition showed improvements in a wider number of outcome measures than the telepractice condition. Overall, the results prompt further research regarding telepractice group conversation treatment for PwA.

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AphasiaCOVID-19CommunicationHumansLanguagePatient Reported Outcome MeasuresTreatment Outcome

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PMCPMC10721252
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