Effect of an extension speech training program based on Chinese idioms in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chinese idioms have potential to act as preliminary training material in studies on post-stroke aphasia.

Objective

To explore an extension speech training program that takes Chinese idioms as context and expands them into characters, words, sentences and paragraphs and evaluate the effects of this program in patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia.

Methods

This was a randomized controlled trial. We recruited patients with post-stroke non-fluent aphasia from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University from January 2021 to January 2022. Participants were randomly assigned to group I and group II. Patients in group I had treatment with extension speech training based on Chinese idioms, and those in group II had treatment with conventional speech rehabilitatio

SUBMITTER: Pei S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9907817 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature