NCT07198048Not yet recruiting
Can Listening to Music Improve Attention and Language After Post-Stroke Aphasia?
Treating Attention and Language in Post-stroke Aphasia Using a Music-based Intervention.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Sept 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 45 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 25 Sept 2025
- Start date
- Oct 2025
- Primary completion date
- Jan 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Purdue University
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT07198048
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 45
- From Oct 2025 to the primary completion date, Jan 2028
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Individuals who have had a dementia diagnosis or attention disorder pre stroke will be excluded.
Other
- Individuals who meet the inclusion criteria, but are unwilling to travel to the ABC Lab at Purdue University for in person testing and do not have a laptop or desktop with a web camera that they could participate online with, will be excluded.
Who the study is looking for
- Adults at least 18 years of age Individuals who have had a stroke and are at least 6 month post stroke Individuals are able to answer 4 questions to determine ability to consent (What is your name, what is the day/date, where are you , and why are we having this conversation).
- Have normal or corrected to normal hearing Have normal or corrected to normal vision Have no issues with color blindness Individuals who have at least mild aphasia on the Western Aphasia Battery Revised Speaks American English
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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