Hearing Aid Education and Adaptation System

Interactive Technology for Hearing Aid Education and Acceptance

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02839759

Enrollment

Registered

2016-07-21

Start date

2018-08-31

Completion date

2020-04-30

Last updated

2020-05-14

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Conditions

Hearing Loss

Keywords

Hearing loss, Presbycusis, Aging, Teleaudiology

Brief summary

This RCT will have two arms: A control group that receives the standard of care from audiologists and an experimental group that receives both the standard of care and the at-home use of the TELLYHealth intervention. Subjects in each group will complete questionnaires at enrollment, mid-study and at the end of the study.

Detailed description

HTM will develop the TELLYHealth (tm) system that will provide education on hearing aid use and maintenance. HTM will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to quantify the benefits of TELLYHealth to patients and audiologists including: reductions in hearing handicap, improved knowledge of hearing aid handling, use and communications strategies; and improved audiologist aftercare. The investigators will recruit 80 subjects (half in each group) and each subject will participate in the study for 8-12 weeks.

Interventions

OTHERTELLYHealth

Educational videos and questions.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

50 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Speaks and reads English fluently * Has mild (25-40 dB) to severe (70-95 dB) monaural sensorineural hearing loss * Will be fitted with one or two hearing aids at the time of enrollment * Owns a standard TV * Has Internet access at home * Has sufficient corrected vision to watch videos and read text on the TV and mobile device * No signs of dementia

Exclusion criteria

* Lives with person who has enrolled in the study

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE)	8-12 weeks	Pre-post changes in the HHIE total scores

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Communication Scale for Older Adults (CSOA)	8-12 weeks	Pre-post changes in the CSOA communication strategies & attitudes scores

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026