Identifying issues affecting expectation in aged patients on the use of hearing aids.

Using questionnaires to identify issues affecting expectation in aged patients on the use of hearing aids.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000234910

Enrollment

Registered

2011-03-03

Start date

2010-12-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Before the hearing aid fitting people answere some questionnaire to evaluate their handicap and expectations. We want to know about gender, age, school degree ansdoccupation too.

Interventions

People who participated of this study are submited to two questionnaires to evaluation their expectation (one created specially for this study), handicap (HHIE-S), an anamnesis to know age, gender and situations of hearing impairment and also degree of hearing loss (basic audiological evaluation), etc. Totally, we used two questionnaires and the application time of each questionnaires was around 15 to 20 minutes. The study lasted two months.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

60 Years to 100 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Have neurosensorial hearing loss for mild to moderately-severe degree, bilateral and symmetric and have no experiences with hearing aid use before.

Exclusion criteria

Other type anda degree of hearing loss, have some cognitive problems that affect the understanding of the questionnaire, and have some experience with hearing aid use before.

Outcome results