Research Article

Can Combination Therapy of Conventional and Oriental Medicine Improve Poststroke Aphasia? Comparative, Observational, Pragmatic Study

Table 5

AQ scores before and after language treatment in the OLT and COT group.

AQOLT group
(SD, median)
COT group
(SD, median)
P value*
BeforeAfterDelta valueBeforeAfterDelta value

Total score26.7
(26.2, 19)
39#
(31.1, 31.6)
12.3
(13.6, 7.2)
28.1
(25.6, 19.2)
45.3#
(27.4, 41.3)
17.2
(11.6, 16.9)
0.021
Spontaneous speech5.7
(5.4, 5)
8.2#
(6.4, 6.8)
2.5
(3.4, 1.5)
5.5
(5.1, 3)
9#
(5.4, 8.5)
3.5
(2.9, 3)
0.049
Content delivery3.4
(3, 3)
4.6#
(3.5, 4)
1.2
(2.1, 1)
3.3
(2.8, 2)
5.2#
(2.7, 5)
1.9
(1.7, 2)
0.024
Fluency2.5
(2.8, 1.5)
3.7#
(3.3, 2.3)
1.2
(1.9, 1)
2.2
(2.4, 1)
3.9#
(4.4, 6.2)
1.8
(1.7, 1)
0.097
Comprehension3.6
(2.7, 3.1)
4.8#
(3, 4.4)
1.3
(1.4, 0.9)
3.6
(2.9, 3.2)
6.2#
(4.4, 6.2)
2.7
(4.3, 1.9)
0.009
Yes-no29.6
(18.9, 32)
35.7#
(19.3, 37.5)
7.9
(10.4, 9)
32.1
(17.9, 33)
43#
(15.6, 48)
11
(13.1, 6)
0.574
Auditory verbal comprehension21.9
(20.4, 18.5)
29.8#
(21.3, 26.5)
8
(9.3, 4)
21.1
(20.1, 11)
36.2#
(19.8, 36)
15.1
(13.7, 12)
0.019
Command performance19.7
(21.4, 12)
28.2#
(26, 21.5)
8.7
(15.6, 1.5)
19.8
(23.4, 10)
34.1#
(26, 32)
14.2
(15.5, 8)
0.031
Repetition2.4
(3.4, 0.6)
3.6#
(3.7, 2.6)
1.3
(1.8, 0.5)
3.3
(3.6, 1.2)
5.5#
(5.3, 5.2)
2.1
(3.9, 1.3)
0.100
Naming1.6
(2.6, 0.2)
2.8#
(3.2, 1.2)
1.2
(1.5, 0.8)
1.9
(2.6, 0.5)
3.4#
(3, 2.1)
1.5
(1.7, 1.2)
0.274
Naming things11.4
(18.1, 0.5)
19.3#
(21.1, 9.5)
8
(11, 4.5)
12.9
(17.9, 4)
21.1#
(19.2, 14)
8.2
(10.8, 6)
0.626
Control word association1.2
(2.5, 0)
3.1#
(4.6, 0)
1.9
(2.9, 0)
1.2
(2.8, 0)
2.7#
(4.2, 0)
1.5
(3.4, 0)
0.427
Sentence completion2
(3.3, 0)
2.9#
(3.8, 1)
0.9
(1.8, 0)
2.5
(3.6, 0)
4#
(3.7, 4)
1.5
(2.5, 0)
0.391
Sentence answer1.7
(3.3, 0)
2#
(4.1, 0)
1
(2.3, 0)
1.9
(3.3, 0)
3.3#
(3.8, 2)
1.5
(2.7, 0)
0.215

COT group: group that received language therapy with oriental medicine therapy.
OLT group: group that received language therapy only.
* 𝑃 value was obtained by the Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test for comparing delta values between the OLT and the COT group.
# 𝑃 value means “ < 0.05.” It was obtained by the Wilcoxon-signed rank test for evaluating significance of change in each group.