Assessment of balance in heavy vehicle drivers
Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/11/047431
- Lead Sponsor
- Gokul shathrian
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
case group
Driving heavy vehicle is the first job
Driving 8 hrs per day with more than 2 years of work experience
Control group
Individuals without any noise exposure.
Individual who does not drive heavy vehicles
Exclusion Criteria
Case group
Individual with hearing loss due to middle ear pathology.
Individual with other medical condition such as diabetic mellitus, hypertension etc.
Control group
Individual with other medical condition such as diabetic mellitus, hypertension etc.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method C-VEMP: - Latency is measured in msec and amplitude in µv <br/ ><br>O-VEMP: - Latency is measured in msec and amplitude in µv <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 30 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PTA:- Hearing threshold level is measured in dB. <br/ ><br>Speech Identification Score:- Speeech scoring is measured in percentage % <br/ ><br>Saccade test :- velocity is measured in °/sec precision is measured in % and latency in msecTimepoint: 30 weeks