Fitness, Hearing and Quality of Life in Older Adults With Hearing Loss. Walk, Talk and Listen for Your Life

Hearing Loss, Functional Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Targeting Functional Fitness, Hearing and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults With Hearing Loss. Walk, Talk and Listen for Your Life, A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02662192
• Other study ID #: H15-02319
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2016
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: November 2020
• Source: University of British Columbia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study examines the effect of an exercise and health education/auditory rehabilitation and socialization intervention on functional fitness, hearing handicap and psychosocial distress measures in older adults with hearing loss.

Description:

Hearing loss is associated with functional fitness declines and increased risk for isolation, dementia, depression, falls, hospitalization and premature mortality. No studies have determined the effect of an exercise intervention on these measures in older adults with hearing loss.

After baseline assessment of function fitness and several psychosocial measures, 60 older adults with hearing loss will be randomized into a 10 week exercise, health education, socialization and auditory rehabilitation program or auditory rehabilitation alone. The exercise program consists of 3/4 of an hour strengthening and resistance training followed by 30 minutes of group walking. The educational session content is determined by participants and is interactive and may include such topics as wills and probate, diabetes treatment, healthy exercise etc. The 3/4 of an hour auditory rehabilitation sessions are modified from an online program and will include interactive sessions on education about hearing and hearing devices/technologies, psychosocial support and enhancing communication skills.

At the end of the 10 week intervention the assessments of functional fitness and psychosocial measures will be repeated. The group that was randomized to the auditory rehabilitation alone will then be offered the exercise program.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 66
• Est. completion date: December 15, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 65 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

-Gender: Male and female

Age limits:

• Minimum age: 65 years of age

• Maximum age: 90 years of age.

• Self-reported diagnosis of hearing loss

• Must be independently ambulatory (no use of cane, walker or wheelchair)

• Less than150 minutes per week of self-reported physical activity

• Healthy enough to participate in the intervention without exacerbating any existing symptomatology

• Not having participated in any organized exercise program for at least 6 months

• Availability and willingness to attend at least 80% of the 10 week intervention sessions in addition to baseline and final assessments. -Be English speaking and able to sign written informed consent

• A Hearing Handicap In the Elderly-25 questionnaire score of 25 > 17

Exclusion Criteria:

• Dementia

• Depression

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deafness
• Hearing Loss
• Hearing Loss, Functional

Intervention

Other:
• Exercise + health education+ auditory rehabilitation
comparison of 3/4 of an hour balance, resistance and strength training, 1 hour health education, 1 hour auditory rehabilitation
• auditory rehabilitation alone
10 weeks of one hour per week of group auditory rehabilitation

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Southern Medical Program, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 321 Reichwald Health Sciences Center, 1088 Discovery Ave.	Kelowna	British Columbia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of British Columbia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

References & Publications (1)

Jones CA, Siever J, Knuff K, Van Bergen C, Mick P, Little J, Jones G, Murphy MA, Kurtz D, Miller H. Walk, Talk and Listen: a pilot randomised controlled trial targeting functional fitness and loneliness in older adults with hearing loss. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr 14;9(4):e026169. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026169. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	functional fitness	Gait speed (6 minute walk test: distance in meters walked in 6 minutes)	3 months
Secondary	Psychosocial outcomes	Hearing and health-related quality of life HHIE-25	3 months
Secondary	Physical and behaviour measures	Physical activity: Time spent in moderate-vigorous physical activity: The Actigraph GT3X+ tri-axial waist worn accelerometer (Actigraph, Pensacola, Florida)	3 months
Secondary	Project evaluation	Satisfaction with the Auditory Rehabilitation, health education and exercise sessions. Confidence in being able to maintain their newly acquired communication strategies and exercise regime. Comments on how the program could be improved.	3 months