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Efficacy of Choir Singing on Verbal, Cognitive, Emotional, and Neural Recovery From Aphasia
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Singing-based rehabilitation and Standard care for Stroke and Aphasia. Completed, enrolled 100 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
This study evaluates the verbal, cognitive, emotional, and neural efficacy of a choir singing intervention in chronic aphasic patients and their caregivers. Using a cross-over RCT design, half of the participants receive a 4-month singing intervention during the first half of the study and half of the participants during the second half of the study.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The singing-based rehabilitation is a combination of group-training (16 weeks, 1 x week, 90 min), which utilizes a novel combination of traditional senior choir singing and singing-based speech training protocols, and home training (16 weeks, ≥ 3 x week, ≥ 30 min) in which the choir material is trained with a tablet computer.
Standard care comprises all rehabilitation and care services (e.g. speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy, neuropsychological rehabilitation) received by the patients in the Finnish health care system