The Efficacy of Confrontational Naming Treatments for Aphasia: A Meta-Analysis
Aphasiology
Yousefzade, F., Memarian, A., et al. (2024).
Aphasiology, 39(7), 942-967.
<div>This systematic review investigates the effects of treatment on confrontational naming in individuals with post-stroke aphasia.</div>
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (Iran)
From January 2009 to March 2023
<div>Randomized control trials, non-randomized control trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, case series, and single-subject studies</div>
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<div>Results of the meta-analysis revealed that 50 of 66 studies reported significant effect sizes (approximately 63% of which were high, 19% of which were medium, and 18% of which were considered low). The phonomotor method, self-managed computerized therapy, and personalized cueing method had non-significant effect sizes.</div>
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<div>The magnitude of the combined effects for the methods on naming that showed significant effects were as follows:</div>
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<li>syntactic cueing (0.93);</li>
<li>errorless (0.89);</li>
<li>action observation method (0.88);</li>
<li>phonological (0.79);</li>
<li>Personalized Observation, Execution, and Mental imagery therapy (0.77);</li>
<li>verb therapy (0.73);</li>
<li>visuomotor cues (0.70);</li>
<li>Semantic Feature Analysis (0.67);</li>
<li>Phonological Component Analysis (0.61);</li>
<li>gestural (0.59);</li>
<li>cueing hierarchy (0.59);</li>
<li>repeated naming (0.55); and</li>
<li>Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy (0.40).</li>
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<div>Limitations to this review include the heterogeneity of study designs and lack of accounting for study characteristics such as types of aphasia or range of time post-onset.</div>
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