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Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Health‐related quality of life · participants with chronic cough

Speech and language therapy may leads to higher health‐related quality of life compared with healthy lifestyle advice (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
MD 1.53 [0.21, 2.85]
1 study · 71 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Serious adverse events · participants with chronic cough

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 75 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Objective cough counts (over 24‐hour period) · participants with chronic cough

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 71 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Symptoms · participants with chronic cough

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 87 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Clinical improvement (as defined by trialists) · participants with chronic cough

It is very uncertain whether speech and language therapy changes clinical improvement (as defined by trialists) compared with healthy lifestyle advice (very low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
OR 48.13 [13.53, 171.25]
1 study · 87 participants
Very low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Cough · participants with chronic cough

Speech and language therapy showed no clear difference in subjective measures of cough (e.g. VAS/numerical cough scale score) compared with healthy lifestyle advice (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 71 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Cough reflex sensitivity (as measured by cough challenge: capsaicin concentration required to provoke 5 coughs) · participants with chronic cough

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 49 participants
Low

Speech and language therapy vs healthy lifestyle advice

Adverse events · participants with chronic cough

1 finding from 1 review

Speech and language therapy for management of chronic cough 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted
1 study · 75 participants
Low