Hearing Program in Primary Care

NYU Langone Health

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Deafness

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual Care; Behavioral: Alternative rehabilitation strategies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05943509

23-00648

Details and patient eligibility

About

During a primary care visit, investigators will screen and identify participants with hearing loss and then randomize to a) counseling on accessible assistive listening devices or b) referral to traditional audiology care pathway alone.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• speaks English or Spanish;
• capacity to consent to research

Exclusion criteria

• has or uses hearing aids or cochlear implants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Alternative Rehabilitation Strategies

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who screened positive for hearing loss and were randomized into the counselling on alternative rehabilitation strategies intervention arm.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Alternative rehabilitation strategies

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients who screened positive for hearing loss and were randomized into the usual care audiology pathway control arm alone.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual Care