Can Combination Therapy of Conventional and Oriental Medicine Improve Poststroke Aphasia? Comparative, Observational, Pragmatic Study
Table 2
Patient characteristics in the 2 groups.
COT group ()
OLT group ()
-value
Gender, male (%)
31 (66)
14 (46.7)
0.104
Age, yr (SD, median)
54.5 (12.1, 54)
52.5 (17.6, 55.5)
0.790
Education, yr (SD, median)
10.8 (5.1, 12)
11.2 (3.8, 12)
0.918
Handedness, right (%)
46 (97.9)
30 (100)
1.000
Treatment period from onset, day (SD, median)
48 (45.4, 29)
41 (28.7, 39)
0.954
Duration of treatment, weeks (SD, median)
6.6 (7.1, 4.9)
7.8 (5.7, 6.4)
0.104
Hypertension (%)
31 (65.96)
20 (66.67)
1.000
Diabetes mellitus (%)
12 (25.53)
3 (10)
0.140
Dyslipidemia (%)
8 (17.02)
3 (10)
0.513
Heart disease (%)
7 (14.89)
4 (13.33)
1.000
AQ scores (SD, median)
28.1 (25.6, 19.2)
26.7 (26.2, 19)
0.875
Total score
5.5 (5.1, 3)
5.7 (5.4, 5)
0.757
Spontaneous speech
3.3 (2.8, 2)
3.4 (3, 3)
0.987
Content delivery
2.2 (2.4, 1)
2.5 (2.8, 1.5)
0.928
Fluency
3.6 (2.9, 3.2)
3.6 (2.7, 3.1)
0.979
Comprehension
32.1 (17.9, 33)
29.6 (18.9, 32)
0.645
Yes-no
21.1 (20.9, 11)
21.9 (20.4, 18.5)
0.892
Auditory verbal comprehension
19.8 (23.4, 10)
19.7 (21.4, 12)
0.834
Command performance
3.3 (3.6, 1.2)
2.4 (3.4, 0.6)
0.179
Repetition
1.9 (2.6, 0.5)
1.6 (2.6, 0.2)
0.405
Naming
12.9 (17.9, 4)
11.4 (18.1, 0.5)
0.457
Naming things
1.2 (2.8, 0)
1.2 (2.5, 0)
0.510
Control word association
2.5 (3.6, 0)
2 (3.3, 0)
0.472
Sentence completion
1.9 (3.3, 0)
1.7 (3.3, 0)
0.670
Sentence answers
COT group: group that received language therapy with oriental medicine therapy. OLT group: group that received language therapy only. AQ: aphasia Quotient. value was obtained by the Mann-Whitney test (age, education, treatment period from onset, duration of treatment, and AQ scores) and Fisher’s exact test (gender and handedness). SD: standard deviation.
