Internet Auditory Rehabilitation: Follow-up to Adult Hearing Screening

University of Louisville (UOFL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: iManage (my hearing loss)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04122183

15.0663

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if a newly developed program called "I Manage my hearing loss" (iManage) will increase the number of individuals who visit an audiologist after failing a hearing screening. The iManage program will educate individuals about hearing loss, demonstrate that hearing problems are important, demonstrate that support from family and friends is important and help participants identify the benefits and concerns related to seeking help for hearing loss.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject must fail a hearing screening (any threshold >34 decibels hearing level at 2000 or 3000 Hertz in either ear) or show equivalent or greater degree of hearing loss on most recent audiogram.
• Free of obvious outer or middle ear disease (as measured by otoscopy)
• Between the ages of 45 and 85
• Pass a health literacy screening
• Pass a thinking skills screening

Exclusion criteria

• Experience seeing an audiologist for a hearing evaluation or management
• Experience using a hearing aid

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Program Group

Experimental group

Description:

Following a failed hearing screening, participants will be offered the standard of care (information sheet recommending a comprehensive hearing evaluation) and asked to complete the iManage Program. Six months after the screening participants will be asked if they visited an audiologist.

Treatment:

Other: iManage (my hearing loss)

Delayed Program Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Following a failed hearing screening, participants will be offered the standard of care (information sheet recommending a comprehensive hearing evaluation). Six months after the screening participants will be asked if they visited an audiologist and they will be given the opportunity to complete the iManage Program.