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Team-based Virtual Pediatric Cochlear Implant Clinic

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Hearing Loss
Interventions
Behavioral: Virtual team-based clinic
Behavioral: Remote cochlear implant programming
Registration Number
NCT05030961
Lead Sponsor
University of Miami
Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if remote visits for pediatric cochlear implant patients are possible. The investigator will be assessing whether a multi-disciplinary team approach can be achieved remotely for patients both undergoing the cochlear implant (CI) process and for those who have already been implanted.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
86
Inclusion Criteria

New patients undergoing CI evaluation:

  1. English speaking patients (parents can speak English and/or Spanish)
  2. Ages 0-12 years who are cochlear implant candidates and undergoing the evaluation process

Established CI recipients:

  1. English speaking patients (parents can speak English and/or Spanish)
  2. Ages 1-12 with at least 6 months of CI experience with a company that has remote programming capacity
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Patients with families who speak languages other than English or Spanish
  2. Patients who do not live in Florida
  3. Patients who have any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the well-being of the patient or the study or prevent the patient from meeting or performing study requirements

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Established Cochlear Implant Recipient GroupVirtual team-based clinicParticipants who are established cochlear implant recipients. Participants will receive a virtual team-based clinic, including remote cochlear implant programming, for one year.
Established Cochlear Implant Recipient GroupRemote cochlear implant programmingParticipants who are established cochlear implant recipients. Participants will receive a virtual team-based clinic, including remote cochlear implant programming, for one year.
Pediatric Cochlear Implant Candidate GroupVirtual team-based clinicParticipants who are in the process of receiving standard of care cochlear implant evaluation. Participants will receive a virtual team-based clinic as a part of the candidacy evaluation process for one year.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Electrode ImpedancesUp to 1 year

Electrode Impedances values, reported in kOhm, will be extracted from the cochlear implant software

LittleEars questionnaire scoresUp to 1 year

The LittleEars auditory questionnaire (LEAQ) uses parent responses to assess auditory behavior in children up to 24 months of age. The questionnaire is scored from 0 to 35 with 0 indicating poorer performance and 35 indicating better performance.

Electrically evoked compound potential valuesUp to 1 year

Electrically evoked compound potential values, reported in mV, will be extracted from the cochlear implant software

Threshold/Upper stimulation levelsUp to 1 year

As measured from the cochlear implant software

Auditory Skills Checklist (ASC) scoresUp to 1 year

ASC has a Total Score ranges from zero to 70, with higher scores indicating development of increasingly complex listening skills

DataloggingUp to 1 year

Datalogging, reported in hours per week, will be extracted from the cochlear implant software

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Patient Health Questionnaire version 8 (PHQ-8) scoresUp to 1 year

PHQ-8 has 8 items rated on a scale from "not at all" (0) to "nearly every day" (3), with higher scores indicating greater frequency of depressive symptoms. The sum of the items indicates the overall level of depressive symptoms indicating mild (5-9), moderate (10-14), moderately severe (15-19), and severe depressive symptoms (20- 24).

Behavior Assessment System for Children version 3 (BASC-3) scoresUp to 1 year

BASC-3 is scored 0-120 as a T score. Any scores between 60-70 is considered at risk / requires monitoring and scores greater than 70 are considered clinically significant / an area that likely requires therapeutic intervention.

Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (PSI) scoresUp to 1 year

Parenting Stress Index/Short Form (PSI) contains 36 items rated on a 6-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree) and a total score. Higher scores indicate increased parenting stress.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder version 7 (GAD-7) scoresUp to 1 year

GAD-7 is a 7-item self-report questionnaire of anxiety symptomatology in the past 14 days. Respondents rate the frequency of each item during the past two weeks on a 0-3-point scale ranging from not at all (0) to nearly every day (3). The sum of the items indicates the overall level of anxiety symptoms indicating mild (0-4), moderate (5-9), moderately severe (10-14), and severe (15- 21).

Quality of Life- CI (QoL-CI) scoresUp to 1 year

QoL-CI is scored 0-100 with higher scores indicating better quality of life.

Cochlear Implant Quality of Life-35 Profile (CIQOL-35 Profile) scoresUp to 1 year

CIQOL-35 Profile is a 35 item questionnaire with a total score ranging from 0-100% with a higher score indicating a higher level of functional ability with a cochlear implant

Scale of Parental Involvement and Self-Efficacy-Revised (SPISE-R) scoresUp to 1 year

The SPISE-R is comprised of 46 questions that uses a 7-point Likert scale to query parents' beliefs, knowledge, confidence, and actions relevant to supporting their child's auditory access and spoken language development. The total average score will range from 1 to 7 with 7 indicating the highest score / highest level of parental involvement and self efficacy.

Parenting Stress-CI scoresUp to 1 year

Parenting Stress-CI is completed by the parent and scored from "not at all stressful" (0) to "very stressful" (3) with higher scores indicating greater degrees of parenting stress. For parents of children 0-5 years, there are 15 items. For parents of children 6-12 years there are 8 items.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Miami

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Miami, Florida, United States

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