Community Health Workers and Teleaudiology as a Culturally-relevant Approach to Improving Access to Hearing Health Care

University of Arizona

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Behavioral: Community Health Workers and Teleaudiology as a Culturally-Relevant Approach to Improving Access to Hearing Health Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03864003

1F32DC017081

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of a teleaudiology intervention with assistance from Community Health Workers to improve access to hearing health care.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Bilateral hearing loss within the fitting range of study hearing aids

Exclusion criteria

• Medically unqualified to receive hearing aids
• Current hearing aid user
• Cognitively impaired

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants randomized to the experimental group will receive hearing aid fitting and verification services via teleaudiology with local, hands-on support from a Community Health Worker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community Health Workers and Teleaudiology as a Culturally-Relevant Approach to Improving Access to Hearing Health Care

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized to the control group will receive hearing aid fitting and verification services via teleaudiology with local, hands-on support from a non-Community Health Worker (undergraduate student in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community Health Workers and Teleaudiology as a Culturally-Relevant Approach to Improving Access to Hearing Health Care