View clinical trials related to Hearing Disability.
Filter by:The goal of this observational study is to learn about sensory loss in hospital patients with delirium. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Are hearing and vision loss related to increased risk of having delirium? - Do hearing and vision loss contribute to more severe delirium? - Do sensory loss and/or delirium affect patient satisfaction with hospital care? Participants will be asked to: - answer delirium screening questions, - undergo hearing & vision screenings, and - complete questionnaires about the hospital stay. The second part of this study is a clinical trial. Researchers will compare different hospital units to see if changing communication affects the number of patients with delirium. The main questions it aims to answer are: • Does sharing information about communication and/or providing hearing devices change the number of hospital patients with delirium? Participants in the study will be asked to complete delirium screenings and answer questions about their hearing and communication.
Participating in spoken conversation constitutes a multitasking situation with concurrent demands on sensorimotor (auditory, postural) and cognitive functioning (memory, updating, task switching and inhibition). As aging affects multisensory integration and cognitive control, these higher-order processes are likely to put accumulating constraints on listening as adults grow older. By training listening skills (not solely auditory skills), the investigators aim at improving overall communication and quality of life. Moreover, the investigators aim at freeing up cognitive resources in the listen task: the better one gets at a certain domain specific task, the less one needs to draw from other resources and, the more resources are free for another concurrent task. The interdisciplinary approach will inform us about ideal audiological rehabilitation or intervention approaches. Pre-posttests comprise behavioral measures to evaluate listening skills and transfer towards non-trained measures. The training is tablet-based and can be performed at home.
It is believed that persons with hearing impairment benefit from auditory rehabilitation (AR), i.e. regular assessment and training of their listening skills. However, the efficacy of auditory rehabilitation has not been investigated before. In Leuven (Belgium) an e-health app has been developed that enables performance assessment, listening skills training, and counselling for persons with hearing impairment. Currently, an RCT is prepared to evaluate the different modules in persons with hearing impairment. The experimental group will receive auditory rehabilitation training modules, and a control group will either receive training tasks that are NOT believed to transfer to improved listening skills or will not receive any training (passive control). 1. Do participants improve on the trained tasks in the LUISTER AR scheme and does this improvement transfer to an improvement in speech perception in noise (primary outcome), executive functioning and/or quality of life (secondary outcomes)? 2. Does training with the LUISTER AR scheme provide more benefit on primary and secondary outcomes than a placebo program (active control group) or no training (passive control group)? 3. Can improvement in speech in noise perception, obtained with the LUISTER AR scheme, be consolidated until 6 months after training has stopped? 4. Are certain user-specific or training-specific aspects correlated to improvement on task-specific learning as well as near- and far transfer