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Teleaudiology: evaluation of teleconsultation efficacy for hearing aid fittings

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Teleaudiology for hearing aid fitting
Ear - Deafness
Registration Number
ACTRN12612000208808
Lead Sponsor
Patricia Danieli Campos
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria

Hearing impaired individuals with indication for hearing aids. Sensorioneural hearing loss without previous experience with the hearing aids

Exclusion Criteria

People with normal hearing or conductive hearing loss. Children.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Teleconsultations have similar outcomes when are compared with the face to face consultations in audiology. In this study, the duration of each procedure (hearing aid programming, real ear measures and couseling about hearing aid management) and the overall time, the real ear measures, the spech perception results, the questionnaire results were compared in the control group and the intervention group.[The first consultation was performed just after randomization and included the hearing aid programming, real ear measures, counseling about hearing aid management and the speech perception assessment. After a month, the datalogging was analized and the IOI-HA (international Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids) was applied.]
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The control group and the experimental group are similar when compared the time to the consultations, the Real Ear Measures results, the Hearing In Noise Test results, the datalogging analysis and the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids.[Just after randomization and one month after the consultation]
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