Randomized Trial of Telehealth vs. Conventional Hearing Care Delivery in the ACHIEVE Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 339
- 试验地点
- 8
- 主要终点
- Average Daily Hours of Hearing Aid Use
研究概览
简要总结
The ACHIEVE Hearing Intervention Follow-Up study is a randomized trial of a telehealth versus conventional clinic-based hearing healthcare (HHC) delivery model among older adults who are existing hearing aid users to determine if a telehealth HHC model improves hearing aid use and other communication outcomes compared to clinic-based HHC.
详细描述
This study is a multi-site randomized efficacy trial of a telehealth versus conventional clinic-based hearing healthcare (HHC) delivery model among older adults who are existing hearing aid users to determine if a telehealth HHC model improves hearing aid use and other communication outcomes compared to clinic-based HHC.
Participants will be recruited from the ongoing Aging & Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) randomized trial in which the investigators recruited 977 adults ages 70-84 with untreated mild-to-moderate hearing loss from January 2018 to October 2019 who were randomized to a hearing intervention (i.e., conventional clinic-based delivery of hearing services and technologies) versus a successful aging education control intervention (i.e., one-on-one sessions with a health educator on topics important for healthy aging). From 2021-2022, as participants in the hearing intervention group (fixed sample, n=490) complete the pre-specified three years of follow-up in the ACHIEVE trial, the investigators will recruit these existing hearing aid users and randomize the participants 1:1 to receive continued conventional clinic-based delivery of hearing care services versus a model that incorporates telehealth. Accounting for loss to follow-up and death, the investigators conservatively estimate that n=400 participants currently in the hearing intervention group will be recruited into this two-year follow-up study.
The main analyses will be conducted at one-year post-randomization when hours of hearing aid use (primary outcome) and patient-centered hearing and communication, social functioning, and quality of life secondary outcomes will be contrasted between the two intervention groups.
After one year of follow-up, participants randomized to the conventional HHC arm will cross-over and also receive telehealth HHC, while participants randomized to the telehealth HHC arm will continue to receive telehealth HHC. All participants will continue to be followed for 2 years post-randomization for observational analyses, with data collection follow-up visits occurring every 6 months.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 73 Years 至 88 Years（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •To be eligible for the current study, participants must:
- •have been eligible for and participated in the hearing intervention arm of the ACHIEVE trial (see original eligibility criteria below)
- •agree to be randomized to receive continued hearing care via either a telehealth or conventional delivery model, and
- •agree to participate in the follow-up study.
- •Original ACHIEVE Inclusion Criteria:
- •Age 70-84 years
- •Community-dwelling, fluent English speaker
- •Availability of participant in area for study duration
- •Adult-onset hearing impairment, defined as four-frequency pure tone average (PTA, 0.5-4 kilohertz (kHz), better ear) ≥30 decibel (dB) hearing level (HL) (decibels hearing level) & <70 dB HL
- •Speech recognition scores in quiet ≥60% in better ear
- •Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) score ≥23 for participants with high school degree or less, or ≥25 for participants with some college education or more
- •Original ACHIEVE
排除标准
- •Reported disability in ≥2 activities of daily living (ADLs)
- •Vision impairment (worse than 20/63 on the Minnesota Near Vision Card)
- •Self-reported use of a hearing aid in the past 1 year
- •Medical contraindication to use of hearing aids (e.g., draining ear)
- •Unwilling to wear hearing aids on a daily basis
- •Conductive hearing impairment with air-bone gap >15 dB in two or more contiguous frequencies in both ears
研究组 & 干预措施
Conventional hearing healthcare group
The conventional hearing healthcare group will have clinic-based visits every 6 months for the duration of the 2-year study. During Year 1, this group will receive clinic-based audiological rehabilitative service delivery and be able to use conventional options to address any unanticipated needs that arise, and then during Year 2, this group will also receive telehealth audiological rehabilitative service delivery and be able to utilize telehealth options, in addition to conventional options, to address any unanticipated needs that arise.
干预措施: Clinic-based audiological rehabilitative service delivery (Other)
Conventional hearing healthcare group
The conventional hearing healthcare group will have clinic-based visits every 6 months for the duration of the 2-year study. During Year 1, this group will receive clinic-based audiological rehabilitative service delivery and be able to use conventional options to address any unanticipated needs that arise, and then during Year 2, this group will also receive telehealth audiological rehabilitative service delivery and be able to utilize telehealth options, in addition to conventional options, to address any unanticipated needs that arise.
干预措施: Telehealth audiological rehabilitative service delivery (Other)
Telehealth hearing healthcare group
The telehealth hearing healthcare group will have clinic-based visits every 6 months for the duration of the 2-year study. This group will receive telehealth audiological rehabilitative service delivery and be able to utilize telehealth options, in addition to conventional options, to address any unanticipated needs that arise during both years of the study.
干预措施: Telehealth audiological rehabilitative service delivery (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Average Daily Hours of Hearing Aid Use
时间窗: Up to 1 year
Average daily hours of hearing aid use is obtained using objective hearing aid data logging. If a participant wears a hearing aid in both ears, then the ear with the greatest number of hours will be selected.
次要结局
- Treatment Satisfaction as Assessed by a Single Item From the International Outcome Inventory - Comprehensive Hearing Intervention (IOI-CHI) Scale(1 year)
- Ability to Hear for Primary Communication Goal as Assessed by a Single Item From the Client-Oriented Scale of Improvement (COSI) Goals Achievement Questionnaire(1 year)
- Hearing-specific Quality of Life as Assessed by the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly - Screening Version (HHIE-S) Questionnaire(1 year)