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Hearing Impairment, Strategies and Outcomes in VA Emergency Departments

NCT05028972 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1050

Last updated 2025-10-21

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Summary

HearVA involves six VA facility emergency departments (ED) over a 3-year intervention period. The first part of this study will test whether providing personal amplifiers to Veteran ED patients who self-report hearing difficulty is acceptable to these patients, can improve their hearing, enhance understanding of discharge instructions, and can reduce the risk of coming back to the ED in a short period of time (3 days and 30 days). The second part of the study will then identify whether ED staff can implement this program and achieve similar results. The second part will give ED staff increasing levels of responsibility for screening Veterans for hearing difficulty and providing personal amplifiers when such difficulty is detected.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Personal Amplifier

The intervention group will receive personal amplifiers (PockeTalkers) while they receive care in the ED

OTHER

No Personal Amplifier

The control group will not receive personal amplifiers while they receive care in the ED

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Joshua Chodosh, MD MSHS · VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-08
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2026-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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