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Big Data Supporting Public Health Hearing Policies

NCT03316287 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1080

Last updated 2020-03-26

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Summary

Hearing Loss (HL) affects over 5% of the world's population (WHO 2014) and is the 5th leading cause of Years Lived with Disability. HL is currently managed with Hearing Aids (HAs), i.e. programmable sound amplification devices that are worn by the hearing impaired subjects to address their hearing difficulties. HA use however is often problematic, costly and with poor overall benefits. The holistic management of HL requires appropriate public health policies for HL prevention, early diagnosis, long-term treatment and rehabilitation; detection and prevention of cognitive decline; and socioeconomic inclusion of HL patients. Currently the evidential basis for forming such policies is limited.

The EVOTION project proposes to address this by collecting and analysing a big set of heterogeneous data, including HA usage, audiological, physiological, cognitive, clinical and medication, personal, behavioural, life style, occupational and environmental data.

This will be done by:

i. accessing big datasets of existing HA user data from the EVOTION clinical partners (UCL/UCLH and GST in the UK; OTICON in Denmark) ii. collection of prospective HA user data who will be recruited to the prospective EVOTION study and who will undergo some additional assessments iii. collection of real time dynamic data of the human participant HA users who will be given a smart phone with different apps (auditory tests; auditory training), sensors (recording of heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate etc.) and smart HAs (recording environmental factors such as noise levels, type of noise etc.) so that real life contextual factors that affect HA usage and outcome can be identified.

These data will be analysed with big data analysis/data mining techniques in order to identify relationships between these in order to use this information to derive and support public health decisions.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Hearing aid

Smart hearing aid to allow collection of real time hearing aid usage data

DEVICE

Mobile phone

Mobile phone linked with the hearing aids to allow users to change the device settings and perform additional listening tests

DEVICE

Sensor

Wearable biosensor for the collection of physiological data

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University College, London

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-01
Primary Completion
2018-11-30
Completion
2018-11-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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