The goal of this randomised controlled trial is to test a online hearing support for first-time hearing aid users. The main questions it aims to answer are short- and long-term effects on the emotional and social consequences of hearing loss that the participants experience, use of communications strategies, experienced listening in complex sound environments and perceived effectiveness and satisfaction with hearing aids.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
100
Participants get hearing rehabilitation according to common practice and the online hearing support consists of five chapters that aim to give information, support, and advice to the new hearing aid users. The participants are assigned a new chapter between each visit at the clinic.
Participants get hearing rehabilitation according to common practice.
Audiologimottagningen Lund
Lund, Sweden
The Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE)
Assessing changes in emotional and social effects of hearing loss, self-perceived activity limitations and participation restrictions. Minimum 0 points to maximum 100 points. Higher score indicates greater emotional and social effects of hearing loss.
Time frame: Baseline, directly post intervention and 6 months post intervention.
The 12-item Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12)
Assessing experience of listening in complex sound environments. Minimum 0 points to 120 points. Higher score indicates less problems with hearing in the specified situations.
Time frame: Baseline, directly post intervention and 6 months post intervention.
Communication Strategies Scale (CSS)
Assessing changes in use of verbal, non-verbal and maladaptive communication strategies. Minimum 25 points to maximum 125 points. Higher score indicates a greater use of communication strategies.
Time frame: Baseline, directly post intervention and 6 months post intervention.
The International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA)
Assessing changes in perceived effectiveness and satisfaction with hearing aids. Minimum 7 points to maximum 35 points. Higher score indicates higher perceived effect.
Time frame: Directly post intervention and 6 months post intervention.
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