Automated Text Message Reminders to Promote Hearing Aid Adoption

Stanford University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Behavioral: Automated text message reminder

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07170423

82494

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many individuals with hearing loss do not receive adequate hearing healthcare. Only about 30 percent of people that are found to have hearing loss during a hearing test go on to use hearing aids. The investigators propose to test the use of text message reminders to educate patients with hearing loss, and to encourage them to get hearing aids. The study objective is to examine whether automated text-messaging reminders increase the use of hearing aids among patients with hearing loss, who are hearing aid candidates.

Enrollment: 190 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking adult patients who have been recommended for hearing aids.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients will be excluded if they use hearing aids or cochlear implants.
• Patients without a valid cellphone number will be excluded.
• Patients with dementia will also be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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190 participants in 2 patient groups

Automated Text Message Reminder

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group will receive automated text messages instructing them to obtain hearing aids. The messages will also include basic information on the prevalence and negative effects of hearing loss.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Automated text message reminder

Control Group

No Intervention group