The Effectiveness of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Young Dyslexic Adults

NCT ID: NCT01930500

Last Updated: 2019-04-12

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-11-30

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether individual and/ group based neuropsychological rehabilitation focused on psychoeducation and teaching compensatory strategies has positive effects on the psychosocial wellbeing and perceived cognitive deficits in dyslexic young adults. The hypothesis is that both individual and group based neuropsychological rehabilitation show positive effects on the psychosocial wellbeing and perceived cognitive deficits. Another purpose of this study is to evaluate weather individual and group based neuropsychological rehabilitation have different kind of effects on the wellbeing of the participants and weather either one of the rehabilitation formats is more effective than the other.

Detailed Description

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Background: Untreated dyslexia causes problems for individuals in studies, work and employment. High quality research on the best and most cost-effective rehabilitation methods is needed.

Objective: To study whether neuropsychological rehabilitation improves the psychosocial wellbeing and perceived cognitive deficits in dyslexic young adults and to evaluate potential differences between individual and group based neuropsychological rehabilitation.

Methods: Altogether 120 young adults diagnosed with dyslexia are randomized either to one of the intervention groups (individual neuropsychological rehabilitation / group neuropsychological rehabilitation) or to a control group which will receive either one of the interventions after a 5 month waiting period. All the study subjects are assessed with a short neuropsychological test battery as well as self-rating questionnaires evaluating mood, QoL, perceived cognitive deficits, and the impact of the learning disability at baseline, after five months (immediately after interventions or control period) and after 10 months. After 20 months a shorter follow-up using only self-ratings will be done via mail. Subjects in the intervention groups are offered neuropsychological rehabilitation in 12 sessions conducted once a week or once in two weeks during five months. Subjects in the control group do not receive any intervention for the first five months.

Results: The effects of interventions on psychosocial wellbeing and perceived cognitive deficits are evaluated using appropriate statistical procedures and comparing the differences between the interventions groups and the control group.

The present status: All the interventions are completed, follow-up data is still beeing collected

Conditions

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Dyslexia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Individual neuropsychological rehabilitation

12 times 90 minutes, once per week or once per two weeks, during 5 months

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Individual neuropsychological rehabilitation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducation, teaching compensatory strategies and offering psychological support to better cope with dyslexia

Group based neuropsychological rehabilitation

12 times 120 minutes + a brake, once per week or once per two weeks, during 5 months

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group based neuropsychological rehabilitation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducation, teaching compensatory strategies and offering psychological support and peer support to better cope with dyslexia

Control group

Control group does not receive neuropsychological rehabilitation or any other intervention during the first 5 months. After the control period they will be randomized to receive either individual or group based rehabilitation.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Individual neuropsychological rehabilitation

Psychoeducation, teaching compensatory strategies and offering psychological support to better cope with dyslexia

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Group based neuropsychological rehabilitation

Psychoeducation, teaching compensatory strategies and offering psychological support and peer support to better cope with dyslexia

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* clinical diagnosis of dyslexia
* age 18-35
* problems in studies, work or employment relating to dyslexia
* subjective and objective need for rehabilitation
* the native language is Finnish

Exclusion Criteria

* other neurological condition than dyslexia
* other learning disabilities than dyslexia
* overall weak cognitive capacity
* psychiatric diagnosis
* severe depression
* alcohol or drug abuse
* neuropsychological rehabilitation received at the age of 16 or later
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

35 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Helsinki University Central Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Social Insurance Institution, Finland

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Rehabilitation Foundation, Finland

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Erja Poutiainen, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Rehabilitation Foundation

Johanna Nukari, LicPsych

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Rehabilitation Foundation

Locations

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Rehabilitation Foundation

Helsinki, Malminkartano, Finland

Site Status

Countries

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Finland

Other Identifiers

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Luki-40211

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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