Hearing Loss, Conductive
Conditions
Keywords
glue ear
Brief summary
To assess whether children with glue ear ( and some normal hearing controls) and their families find the Hear Glue Ear application acceptable and easy to use. Whether the hearing screening section on the app is comparable to the hearing test data obtained from formal audiology hearing tests.
Detailed description
The Hear Glue Ear application aims to provide up-to-date information for families as well as audiobooks, songs and games for children with hearing loss secondary to glue ear, to be able to aid with their developmental skills (particularly speech, language, auditory processing, auditory memory and listening skills) during the period of time when they have glue ear. Outcome measures include acceptability of the application by the family (provided by questionnaires to the child and an adult parent/ carer), usability of the app (a member of the research team will observe the child using the app and how much difficulty they have such as how many times the researcher has to help/ intervene) and comparison of the hearing screen on the app with formal audiology hearing test result.
Interventions
DEVICEHear Glue ear application
Hear Glue ear is an application used on phones, ipads, tablets or computers which provides free information, songs, audiobooks, games and a home hearing screening game.
Sponsors
Dr. Tamsin Brown
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Masking description
Single arm study of children trialling an app
Intervention model description
Teal of an app
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
2 Years to 8 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* aged 2-8 years old * had a formal hearing test at Cambridge audiology clinic and has a diagnosis of gluem ear worse than 25dB at more than 1 frequency or nornmal hearing diagnosed where 20dB or better is recorded at 0.5, 1, 2, 4 KHz
Exclusion criteria
* permanent hearing loss * English not a dominant language (since the app is written in English)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| acceptability of the Hear Glue Ear application to children with glue ear and their families | Observing the child looking at the app for he first time and following up with the family after 1 week from baseline regarding whether they used it at home | Questionnaire: Whether children like the Hear Glue ear app and find it useful |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| does the hearing screen on the Hear Glue Ear application compare to hearing test results from formal audiology testing. | 1 hour maximum. one appointmnet where the researcher observes the child accessing the app | Comparison between results: Children will have had a formal hearing test before they are invited into the study and theis will be compared to their results on the hearing screening game within the application. |
| Ease of use of the Hear Glue ear application | 1 hour. one appointmnet where the researcher observes the child accessing the app | Questionnaire and Number of mistakes: Can children easily access the Hear Glue Ear application without help from an adult |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed