Clinical trial · Interventional
Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasia Before and After Speech Therapy
Quality of Life in Patients Treated for Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasia Before and After Speech Therapy: a Randomized Clinical Trial
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This study aims to verify the impact of four speech therapy sessions on the Quality of Life of patients treated for malignant tongue and/or jaw cancer, using as measure specific questionnaires of speech and swallowing. The hypothesis is that after treatment with exercises and speech therapy guidance, patients will present better indicators on Quality of Life related to speech and swallowing.
Conditions
Conditions (4)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligibility, Speech | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Jaw Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Oral Cancer | Malignant Lip and Oral Cavity Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Tongue Cancer | Malignant Tongue Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech-language guidance | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Speech therapy exercises for speech | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Speech therapy exercises for swallowing | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Study group
- interventionNames
- Other: Speech-language guidance
- Other: Speech therapy exercises for swallowing
- Other: Speech therapy exercises for speech
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Group
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Changes in Quality of Life Scores related to swallowing
- timeFrame
- 1 month
- description
- To measure the changes in Quality of Life related to swallowing it was used the questionnaire Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI)
- measure
- Changes in Quality of Life Scores related to speech
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Over 18 Years * Tongue and/or Jaw Neoplasm * Submitted to surgical treatment Exclusion Criteria: * Under 18 Years * Cognitive impairment or deficits in language comprehension * Previous speech therapy intervention * Recurrence or active disease * Death during the intervention
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