Can Listening to Music Improve Attention and Language After Post-Stroke Aphasia?
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorPurdue University
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a music-based intervention can acutely improve three types of attention (alerting, orientating, executive control) in people with aphasia following a stroke.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. Is a music based intervention effective at improving attention with someone who has aphasia? 2. Does music-induced changes in attention improve language abilities and quality of life with someone who has aphasia? Researchers will compare a group that listening to music, to listing to an audiobook group, to a group that serves as a control to see if there are changes in attention over time.
Participants will:
1. Listen to music or an audiobook for 30 minutes a day for 8 weeks 2. Complete a daily journal about each day's listening experience 3. Complete three testing sessions where attention, language, and quality of life are assessed.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
None
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Music-Based Therapy for Post Stroke Aphasia
BehavioralParticipants will be instructed to maintain their usual activities each day, except we will ask them to select a time of day, a comfortable and distraction free environment, and an apparatus for regular music listening (earbuds, headphones, speakers). Participants will listen mindfully to randomized selections from the playlist that meets their needs that day (i.e., energizing or relaxing). Participants will listen to their music selections on shuffle for 30 minutes per day for 8 weeks using the strategies provided by the music therapist. The target listening duration is 30 minutes as it is a common target for time spent on task before taking a break. Participants will complete their daily journal entry immediately after music listening. The music therapist will make a weekly telephone call to each participant in the experimental arm. The telephone call will last \~30 minutes. During this telephone call, the music therapist will update the music playlists and help submit their logs.
Audiobook Intervention for Post Stroke Aphasia
BehavioralParticipants will be instructed to maintain their usual activities each day, except we will ask them to select a time of day, a comfortable and distraction free environment, and an apparatus for regular music listening (earbuds, headphones, speakers). Participants will listen mindfully to an audiobook selected with a speech-language pathologist (SLP). Participants will listen to their audiobook for 30 minutes per day for 8 weeks using the strategies provided by the SLP. The target listening duration is 30 minutes as it is a common target for time spent on task before taking a break. Participants will complete their daily journal entry immediately after audiobook listening. The SLP will make a weekly telephone call to each participant in the experimental arm. The telephone call will last \~30 minutes. During this telephone call, the SLP will update the audiobook library and help submit their logs.
Treatment groups
45 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsGroup A: Music Based InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Audiobook listenersActive comparator 1 intervention
Group C: No Contact ControlNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Change in attention from T1 to T2 and T3
Attention will be measured in each group through the Visual Attention Network Task. Changes in attention will be calculated between timepoint 1 (T1), timepoint 2 (T2) and timepoint 3 (T3).
Time frame
From T1 to T2 (11 weeks for the experimental and active control arms, 9 weeks for the no-contact arm) and to T3 (8 weeks after T2)2
Change in language from T1 to T2 and T3
Language will be measured through a sentence-picture matching task and language production task. Changes in language will be calculated between timepoint 1 (T1), timepoint 2 (T2) and timepoint 3 (T3).
Time frame
From T1 to T2 (11 weeks for the experimental and active control arms, 9 weeks for the no-contact arm) and to T3 (8 weeks after T2)3
Changes in quality of life from T1 to T2 and T3
Quality of life will be measured through the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders measure. Changes in quality of life will be calculated between timepoint 1 (T1), timepoint 2 (T2) and timepoint 3 (T3).
Time frame
From T1 to T2 (11 weeks for the experimental and active control arms, 9 weeks for the no-contact arm) and to T3 (8 weeks after T2)Locations
Sponsors and contacts
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Purdue University
Lead sponsor
American Heart Association
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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