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Audiology Visits After Screening for Hearing Loss: An RCT

NCT00105742 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1400

Last updated 2015-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hearing impairment is one of the most common disabilities in veterans. The decreased ability to communicate is troubling in itself, but the strong association of hearing loss with functional decline and depression adds further to the burden on the hearing-impaired. Although hearing amplification improves quality of life, hearing evaluations are offered infrequently to older patients. Only 25 percent of patients with aidable hearing loss receive treatment. Up to 30 percent of patients who receive hearing aids do not use them. We contend that an effective formal screening program should identify hearing-impaired patients who are motivated to seek evaluation and who derive benefit from treatment.

Conditions

  • Hard of Hearing

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Diagnosis

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Bevan Yueh, MD MPH · VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
2005-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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