Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03402932
Administration Method of Cognitive Screening in Older Individuals With Hearing Loss
The Impact of Test Administration Method on Cognitive Screening Results in Older Individuals With Hearing Loss
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 37 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years – 85 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The objectives of the current project aim to determine whether a more controlled amplification method or a visual administration has an effect on hearing impaired older individuals' cognitive test scores.
Detailed description
Aim 1 is to create a visually administered condition of a cognitive test and to validate this condition in comparison to the auditory administration. Data will be collected from younger individuals with normal hearing. Each younger individual is tested using both visual and auditory condition and the scores are compared across the two conditions. It is anticipated that the scores will not be significantly different between the two conditions. Aim 2 is to examine the test condition effect on cognitive testing results in older individuals with hearing loss. The three test conditions include auditory unamplified, auditory amplified, and visual. Each older individual will be tested using two different test conditions. It is predicted the auditory amplified and visual administrations will alleviate the cognitive load associated with hearing difficulty and lead to improved performance on the test.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Auditory amplified | The cognitive test will be administered using a computer-based signal processing to amplify the instruction. The presentation level is customized to the individual's hearing thresholds. |
| OTHER | Visual | The cognitive test will be administered visually by using timed computer slides. |
| OTHER | Auditory unamplified | The cognitive test will be administered by using a generic presentation level that simulates a normal conversational level. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-07-10
- Completion
- 2018-07-10
- First posted
- 2018-01-18
- Last updated
- 2019-04-03
- Results posted
- 2019-04-03
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03402932. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.