STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF RHYTHMIC AND NON-RHYTHMIC MUSICAL PRIMING ON THE SYNTAX CAPACITY OF PRESBYACOUSTIC OLDER ADULTS

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Presbyacousie
• Interventions: Other: Audiogram; Other: Musical priming for the syntax test; Other: Test MMSE; Other: Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT06282601
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon

Brief Summary

Presbyacusis, or age-related hearing loss, is a public health problem, affecting 20% of men and 30% of women over the age of 70 according to the WHO. In the most incapacitating cases, hearing aids are required. Numerous studies have evaluated the benefits of hearing aids, particularly in terms of improved hearing and quality of life.

However, the specific effect of music on language skills has not yet been studied in hearing-impaired older adults.

In this context, it was decided to study the effect of musical priming on the syntactic abilities of adults aged 70 or older with presbyacusis.

This study is based on the hypothesis that music priming with regular music optimizes the syntax language skills of people with presbyacusis, as has already been proven in adults and normal-hearing children.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-02-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-02-26
• Study First Posted: 2024-02-28
• Status Verified: 2025-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-16
• Last Update Posted: 2025-05-21
• Study Start: 2025-09
• Primary Completion: 2025-11
• Study Completion: 2027-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 27

Inclusion Criteria

• No objection to participation in the study
• Men and women aged ≥ 70 years
• Patients diagnosed with presbyacusis (age-related bilateral and symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss, all stages combined), with or without the use of a bilateral hearing aid.
• If they use a hearing aid: hearing must have an average free-field fitted tonal threshold of 40 dB max and free-field fitted speech discrimination without lip-reading of 90-100% at 60dB in silence.
• MMSE score ≥ 24/30

Exclusion Criteria

• Person under legal protection (curatorship, guardianship)
• Person under court order
• Adult unable to provide consent
• Person with a neurocognitive disorder (post-stroke, dyslexia, dyspraxia) or neuro-psychiatric disorder (dementia, autism)
• Severe sensorineural hearing loss with mean free-field threshold > 40 dB and free-field speech discrimination without lip-reading of < 90-100% at 60dB in silence
• Asymmetrical sensorineural hearing loss due to an additional cause of hearing loss on one side.

Secondary exclusion criteria:

Person with syntax disorder (discovery of sentence comprehension or production disorders during syntax test)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Presbyacusis patients	Audiogram	-
Presbyacusis patients	Test MMSE	-
Presbyacusis patients	Musical priming for the syntax test	-
Presbyacusis patients	Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
linguistic performance test focusing on syntax.	At baseline