Postural Modification and Hearing Aids in Presbycusis (Post-AP)

University Hospital, Angers

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Hearing Aid; Postural; Defect; Age-Related Hearing Loss

Treatments: Other: posturography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05706051

2022-A02002-41

Details and patient eligibility

About

Presbycusis could be associated to increased risk to fall. There is little about the impact on postural balance of hearing aids. In this study, the investigators describe the postural balance evolution before and after hearing aid fitting in presbycusis-affected adults (55-80years old) consulting Angers University Hospital ENT department and ENT Medical Doctor of Le Mans .

Full description

After being informed about te study and consentment, patients meeting inclusion criteria consulting for presbycusis and in indication for hearing aids will be included to have posturometry (V0). Posturometry is performed 3 months later, before the first hearing aid installation (V1a) and after (V1b), as well as three months after hearing aid wearing (V2). Evolution of posturometry parameters without hearing aids between V0 and V1a serve as control and is compared to the evolution of posturometry parameters after hearing aid wearing between V1b and V2.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 55 to 80 years old
• ARHL within PTA superior to 30dBHL, and intelligibility threshold 30dB or worse defining hearing aid fitting indication in France

Non inclusion Criteria:

• hearing aid fitting refusal or contrindication
• vestibulare rehabilitation in past 3 months
• unusual physical activity the day of the posturography test
• incapacity to understand the instruction, or to stand up the time of posturography without help
• predictable incapacity to perform posturography in the time of the study

Exclusion criteria

• acute affliction that could affect the posturography test
• daily physical activity modification due to medical advice or vestibular rehabilitation between two posturography

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

age-related hearing loss affected before hearing aid fitting

Other group

Description:

patients aged 55 to 80 years old, undergoing posturography at diagnosis of ARHL and 3 months later before hearing aid fitting, within the role of control same patients udergoing posturography at hearing aid fitting and 3 months after.

Treatment:

Other: posturography