Digital Interventions in Neurorehabilitation: iTALKbetter

Sponsor
University College, London
Study ID
NCT04566081
Status
Completed

Conditions

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
N/A - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • iTalkBetter Trained Items — BEHAVIORAL
    These are the linguistic items to-be-trained
  • iTalkBetter Untrained Items — BEHAVIORAL
    These are the psycholinguistically matched untrained items

Study Details

iTALKBetter will provide an app-based therapy for people with word retrieval difficulties who have had a stroke. This study aims to test the therapy application for people with naming difficulties through a small scale item-randomized controlled trial.

Key Dates

Start date
Sep 7, 2020
Status verified
Feb 2026
Primary completion
Feb 25, 2022
Completion
Feb 25, 2022

Study Design

Enrollment
31 participants (actual)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: iTALKbetter
    There is only one arm (iTalkBetter), but within this arm there are two conditions, trained and untrained items. These are the therapy items (words). Half are trained and half are untrained. Each participant gets a different mix of trained or untrained items. Participants received iTALKbetter therapy for 6 weeks. Participants are required to use the therapy for 1.5 hours everyday to reach the required dose of 60 hours over the 6 week period.

Primary Outcome Measure

Accuracy Performance (%) on a Bespoke Word Retrieval Test: WRT. Two Conditions: 1. Trained Items 2. Untrained Items [ Time Frame: Two time points: 1. Pre- intervention (T3 = 6 weeks post baseline) 2. Post-intervention (T4 = 12 weeks post baseline) ]

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