Vocational Rehabilitation for employees with hearing impairment: a cost-effectiveness study.
Completed
- Conditions
- hearing impairmenthearingloss10019243
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON38003
- Lead Sponsor
- Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 160
Inclusion Criteria
1. Diagnosis with hearing impairment (i.e. mean pure-tone hearing loss at 1, 2 and 4 kHZ in best ear >25 dB HL) or a score of *insufficient* or *poor* on the National Hearing Test
2. Age above 18 years
3. Able to complete questionnaires written in Dutch language and capable of giving informed consent
4. Working for at least 8 hours a week
5. Available for the study for the following 12 months
Exclusion Criteria
1. Not willing or unable to comply with the study protocol
2. Those who have already been referred to or passed a VEP in the last year
3. Those for whom tinnitus is the primary condition affecting the individual
4. Those who were pregnant
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>1. Need for recovery after work (NFR) scale comprised 11 dichotmized items<br /><br>assessing the short term effects of fatigue caused by work activities (Meijman<br /><br>en Van Veldhoven, 1994) .</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method