Efficacy of Auditory Training and Combined Auditory-working-memory Training in Improving Communication in Older Adults

Hearing Loss Clinical Trial

Official title: Efficacy of Auditory Training and Combined Auditory-working-memory Training in Improving Communication and Cognition in Older Adults With Untreated Mild-to-moderate Sensorineural Hearing Impairment

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Using a randomized controlled trial, we are going to examine whether a training program that incorporates both auditory training and working memory training (AT-WMT) would generate significantly better results in communication and cognition than an auditory training program and a mindfulness training program (active-control). Participants are 120 older adults (40 per group) with untreated mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing impairment .

Clinical Trial Description

There will be three training groups: the Auditory training (AT) group, the Auditory-working memory training (AT-WMT) group, and the control group (mindfulness training). All training programs are home-delivered, non-clinician-administered, and computer-based. That is, training will be self-paced and administered by the participants themselves at home using a computer. A software program (see Figure 2) has been created to facilitate the administration of the AT and AT-WMT. All training groups will spend one hour per day and five days per week for 4 weeks.

Before the training, two baseline test sessions (T1 and T2, a maximum of one week apart) will be used to account for the test-retest effects. The same measurements will be administered again one day (T3) and three months (T4) after completion of the training. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deafness
• Hearing Loss

• NCT number: NCT05399264
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Education University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Yuan Chen, PhD
• Phone: 59871023
• Email: cheny@eduhk.hk
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 2023
• Completion date: December 2026