Clinical Trial: At-home Auditory Training Clinical Trial
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: At-home Auditory Training Clinical Trial
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of an auditory training program used at home with the subject's own hearing aids.
Detailed Summary:
The most common communication complaint of older adults with impaired hearing is that they can hear speech, but can't understand it. This is especially true where there are competing sounds in the background. Previous experiments performed under laboratory settings using a novel word-based auditory-training regimen have demonstrated substantial improvements in open-set recognition of words and sentences in noise. The current proposed study will investigate the effectiveness of the training regimen when used in a patient's home setting with their own hearing aids. All testing for the screening, baseline speech testing, training system orientation, and the outcomes portions of this project will be conducted in the Audiology Research Laboratory (ARL) of the Speech and Hearing Center located at 200 South Jordan Avenue. The use of the training program will be done at the subject's home.
Subjects will first come to the ARL for either one session for a hearing aid follow-up and instruction in the use of the training system (Session 1) or for one session for an initial screening to determine eligibility (Screening) followed then by Session 1. Subjects will then take home a training system that includes a tablet computer that has the training program loaded onto it, a portable loudspeaker, and some accessories. There will be three groups of subjects: (1) Hearing aid alone--no training (passive control); (2) Hearing aid plus auditory training (training); and (3) Hearing aid plus audio book use (active control). Each group will include 40 subjects. Those subjects in the training group and active control group will complete two five-week cycles of training and return to the lab for outcome measures after 10 weeks of training for the primary and secondary outcome measures. The hearing aid alone group will return for the same outcome measures as the training and active control groups,
Sponsor: Indiana University
Current Primary Outcome: Profile of Hearing Aid Performance (PHAP) [ Time Frame: One time: 10 weeks post session 1 ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome: Connected Speech Test (CST) [ Time Frame: One time: 10 weeks post session 1 ]
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: Indiana University
Dates:
Date Received: August 2, 2013
Date Started: July 2013
Date Completion:
Last Updated: March 6, 2017
Last Verified: March 2017