NCT06256081

Testing a New App for Children With Glue Ear

Testing the Hear Glue Ear Software Application on Patients With Glue Ear

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dr. Tamsin Brown · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To assess whether children with glue ear ( and some normal hearing controls) and their families find the Hear Glue Ear application acceptable and easy to use. Whether the hearing screening section on the app is comparable to the hearing test data obtained from formal audiology hearing tests.

Detailed description

The Hear Glue Ear application aims to provide up-to-date information for families as well as audiobooks, songs and games for children with hearing loss secondary to glue ear, to be able to aid with their developmental skills (particularly speech, language, auditory processing, auditory memory and listening skills) during the period of time when they have glue ear. Outcome measures include acceptability of the application by the family (provided by questionnaires to the child and an adult parent/ carer), usability of the app (a member of the research team will observe the child using the app and how much difficulty they have such as how many times the researcher has to help/ intervene) and comparison of the hearing screen on the app with formal audiology hearing test result.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss, Conductive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hear Glue ear application	Hear Glue ear is an application used on phones, ipads, tablets or computers which provides free information, songs, audiobooks, games and a home hearing screening game.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2024-02-13
• Last updated: 2024-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom