Evaluation of Hearing Protection Fit Testing Program
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 3
- 主要终点
- Degree of earplug fit for participants in the Air Force Hearing Conservation Program as a measure of education and personnal attenuation rating.
研究概览
简要总结
The specific aim of this research is to evaluate the performance, effectiveness, and long-term training benefits of a formal hearing protection fit testing program. This study may provide preliminary evidence on the benefits of direct education/training combined with a formal hearing protection device (HPD) fit testing on HPD fittings on United States Air Force (USAF) employees. Currently, Public Health provides informal, subjective training to employees; this practice may be altered by the results of this study.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Subjects must be enrolled in the hearing conservation program, and can be civilian or active duty/uniformed. Subjects must be currently using some form of in-the-ear hearing protection device on a regular basis and have ear canals free of cerumen, infection, or any other obstruction.
排除标准
- •Not enrolled in the hearing conservation program. Not using in-the-ear hearing protection device on a regular basis. Ear canals containing cerumen, infection, or other obstructions.
结局指标
主要结局
Degree of earplug fit for participants in the Air Force Hearing Conservation Program as a measure of education and personnal attenuation rating.
时间窗: 6 mos after intial subject visit
The experimental group will show an increase, larger than the control group, in the amount of personal attenuation rating measurement shown by the software program as a result of software intervention used before and after education at the initial and follow-up visits.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Quintin Hecht
Hearing Conservation Program Manager, Doctor of Audiology
United States Air Force