Community-Based Kiosks for Hearing Screening and Education

Portland VA Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Procedure: Home Hearing Screening Test; Procedure: No screening test; Procedure: Pure-tone Screener test; Procedure: Pure-tone Screener/Motivation video; Procedure: Automated hearing test; Procedure: Home Hearing Screening Test/Brief video; Procedure: Digits-in-noise test/Motivational video; Procedure: No screening test/Motivational video; Procedure: Digits-in-noise test; Procedure: Automated hearing test/Motivation video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01963104

4R33DC011769-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall goal of the project is to evaluate innovative, cost-effective, community-based automated hearing screening and education methods to motivate individuals with mild-to-moderate hearing loss to enter the hearing healthcare system.

Enrollment: 2,048 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: :

• Some subjects will have a complaint of hearing difficulty without a recent hearing evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

• For all groups: minimum age 18 years. No current hearing aid use

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,048 participants in 10 patient groups

Automated hearing test

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take an abbreviated automated hearing test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up.

Treatment:

Procedure: Automated hearing test

Pure-tone Screener test

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take a pure-tone hearing screening test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up.

Treatment:

Procedure: Pure-tone Screener test

Digits-in-noise test

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take a digits-in-noise test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up.

Treatment:

Procedure: Digits-in-noise test

No screening test

Experimental group

Description:

This group of subjects will not receive a screening test.

Treatment:

Procedure: No screening test

Automated hearing test/Motivation video

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take an abbreviated automated hearing test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up. They will then watch a brief video that shows how hearing works and learn about the different types of hearing loss.

Treatment:

Procedure: Automated hearing test/Motivation video

Pure-tone Screener/Motivation video

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take a pure-tone hearing screening test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow- up. They will then watch a brief video that shows how hearing works and learn about the different types of hearing loss.

Treatment:

Procedure: Pure-tone Screener/Motivation video

Digits-in-noise test/Motivational video

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will take a digits-in-noise test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up.They will then watch a brief video that shows how hearing works and learn about the different types of hearing loss.

Treatment:

Procedure: Digits-in-noise test/Motivational video

No screening test/Motivational video

Experimental group

Description:

This group of subjects will not receive a screening test. They will watch a brief video that shows how hearing works and learn about the different types of hearing loss

Treatment:

Procedure: No screening test/Motivational video

Home Hearing Screening Test

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be taught the set-up for a home hearing screening test, take an abbreviated automated hearing test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up.

Treatment:

Procedure: Home Hearing Screening Test

Home Hearing Screening Test/Brief video

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be taught the set-up for a home hearing screening test, take an abbreviated automated hearing test and then receive recommendations for hearing healthcare follow-up. They will then watch a brief video that shows how hearing works and learn about the different types of hearing loss.

Treatment:

Procedure: Home Hearing Screening Test/Brief video