Auditory Brain Training to Enhance Satisfaction and Usage of New Hearing Aids by Older Adults
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in Hearing Aid Satisfaction After Auditory Training
研究概览
简要总结
Although hearing aids are the most common treatment for hearing loss, and have the potential to help seniors stay active and productive, almost 50% of them who receive hearing aids rarely if ever use them, a state of affairs sometimes referred to as "the hearing aid in the drawer" syndrome. clEAR's customized auditory brain training has been shown to be effective in improving adults' abilities to recognize speech, in reducing their perceptual effort associated with listening with a hearing loss, and in increasing their confidence to engage in everyday conversations. In the proposed research, we will determine whether older adults who receive hearing aids for the first time report higher satisfaction with their new hearing aids and have longer daily use time as a result of having completed clEAR's auditory brain training program for new hearing aid users.
详细描述
Auditory training as the potential to dramatically affect older persons' adjustment to a new hearing aid and to maximize the benefits they receive from wearing one. In turn, by wearing hearing aids, they experience easier and more successful communication patterns. They enhance their ability to engage in everyday conversations and will be able to become more socially involved with their family and friends. In this study we will try to determine the extent to which web-based clEAR auditory brain training, with concomitant support from a clEAR in-house audiologist, affects satisfaction with new hearing aids and increases daily use time. The study will include thirty adults over the age of 60 years who have received hearing aids for the first time. After an adjustment period, half will complete clEAR's auditory brain training program right away and the other half will complete it after a delay period, and both will complete a control condition. To establish the level of feasibility and clinical utility. We will measure hearing aid satisfaction, benefit ratings, and hearing aid use time.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Participants are unaware if they are in the late or early intervention group.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 60 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Must be a native English speaker
- •Must have a mild to severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- •Must be a candidate for new hearing aid(s) (have never used hearing aids)
排除标准
- •Cognitive impairment or any factors that would prohibit a participant from completing questionnaires
- •Cognitive or speech production factors that would prohibit a participant from repeating words during a speech perception test.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Hearing Aid Satisfaction After Auditory Training
时间窗: Three weeks after hearing aid fitting and after completing the four week training protocol.
The Client Orientated Scale of Improvement (COSI), a subjective measure of improvement on self-defined goals. The scale is relative to a baseline assessed before wearing hearing aids. For each goal participants select from a scale of improvement including Worse (-1), No Difference (0), Slightly Better (+1), Better (+2), and Much Better (+3). Positive values between one and three indicate improvement, negative values indicate that the self-defined goals got worse, and zero is no improvement. COSI scores were assessed before and after participants used the Amptify DTx. The outcome measure reported is the difference between scores before and scores after using the Amptify DTx.
次要结局
- Change in Percent Words Correct on Speech Perception Measures After Auditory Training(At the time of hearing aid fitting (baseline), three weeks after hearing aid fitting, and after completing the four week training protocol.)