NLP Headache Speech (NLPH-SPEECH): a Cross-sectional Study on Natural Language Processing Analysing Spoken Monologues by Headache Patients

NCT05204316 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: BC-10619
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The research collects spoken descriptions of headache disorders by participants with headache disorders. The speech recordings are analyzed by natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyse linguistic properties of the texts and to obtain insight into the potential of NLP machine learning models for the recognition of headache syndromes of the participants.

Conditions

Headache Disorders

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Linguistic analysis of texts

  Descriptive linguistic analysis of lexical choices, sentence formation and thematic content within the texts

  through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Machine learning modelling for classification of headache disorders

  through study completion, an average of 1 year

• Machine learning modelling for estimation of headache impact scores

  through study completion, an average of 1 year

Study Arms (1)

Participants

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will provide spoken narratives on their headache disorder

Other: Digital Analysis of Speech

Interventions

Digital Analysis of Speech OTHER

Recordings will be transcribed manually to written digital text formats, on which NLP tools such as tokenisation and lexical analysis will be performed.

Participants

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• is a patient of the tertiary headache clinic at Ghent University Hospital
• is 18 years or older
• has Dutch as native speaking language

You may not qualify if:

• has difficulties in producing spoken language
• has limited or no knowledge of Dutch

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Ghent: lead

Study Sites (1)

UZ Gent - Dienst Neurologie

Ghent, 9000, Belgium

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Headache Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 10, 2022
• First Posted: January 24, 2022
• Study Start: January 13, 2022
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2023
• Study Completion: December 31, 2023
• Last Updated: May 16, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

BE (1)