Effect of Psycho-Educational Interventions in Communication Partners of Older Adults With Hearing Impairment

National Taiwan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Older Adults; Communication Partners; Nursing; Hearing Impairment

Treatments: Behavioral: Group-based multi-component psychoeducational inventions (GMC-PEIs)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06559514

202304022RINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hearing impairment is a critical health problem throughout the world. In addition, having an impact on the biopsychosocial functioning of older adults, it places enormous stress and burden on communication partners who interact with older adults with hearing impairment every day. These communication partners generally have restrictions to their social lives and an increased communication burden, as well as symptoms of depression and adopting maladaptive coping and poorer quality of life. Therefore, group-based multi-component psycho-educational interventions are recommended. The purposes of this study are to examine the effects of group-based multi-component psycho-educational interventions (GMC-PEIs) on burden, depression, coping and quality of life in communication partners of older adults with hearing impairment. The single-blind, randomized control trial will include communication partners of older adults with hearing impairment. Participants will be randomized to either intervention groups or control groups.

Full description

The study will be an experimental design featuring repeated measures, with data collected from a pretest, a posttest and a follow-up test. An estimated total of 92 participants will be randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group will participate in a 6-week group-based multi-component psycho-educational interventions (GMC-PEIs), including provide information on communication skills training, clear speech training, psychosocial support, stress management and successful person testimonial, consisting of 60-minute sessions once per week, while the control group will be put on a waiting-list group. Each group will be assessed of the outcomes at 3 time points: baseline (T0), three months following the intervention (T1) and again at six months following the intervention (T2). The investigators will use the Significant Other Scale for Hearing Disability (SOS-HEAR), the 10-item version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (10-Item CES-D), the Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Scale (B-COPE), the Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) and the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids-Significant Other (IOI-HA-SO) as the outcome indicators. The principle of intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis will be used, and the result will be analyzed mainly by generalized estimating equation (GEE).

Enrollment: 92 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being18 or older
• living with older adults with hearing impairment
• they were indicated that as primary communication partner
• no known hearing loss
• having normal cognitive function
• articulate in the Mandarin Chinese language
• signing a consent form to participate

Exclusion criteria

• severe psychiatric disorders
• the communication partner who is hired as a caregiver

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

Group-based multi-component psycho-educational inventions (GMC-PEIs)

Experimental group

Description:

Group-based multi-component psycho-educational interventions. The participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the waiting-list control group, using a computer-generated list of random numbers.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group-based multi-component psychoeducational inventions (GMC-PEIs)

Controls group

No Intervention group

Description:

Waitlist control group