Clinical Trial of the "Living Well With Hearing Loss Workshop"

NCT00323427 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 135

Last updated 2014-03-06

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Summary

This study evaluates whether a 2 hour group session, "The Living Well with Hearing Loss Workshop," can successfully teach hard of hearing people how to best use hearing aids and a variety of personal skills to compensate for the limitations of their impaired ears.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The Living Well with Hearing Loss Workshop

Interactive group session modeled on Patient-Centered medicine and Adult Learning principles; the participants are partners with the Group Facilitator who is a hearing rehabilitation professional

DEVICE

hearing aid services

Standard VA audiological hearing aid dispensing services

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Mitchel B Turbin · VA Medical Center, Portland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2010-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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