NCT06282601

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF RHYTHMIC AND NON-RHYTHMIC MUSICAL PRIMING ON THE SYNTAX CAPACITY OF PRESBYACOUSTIC OLDER ADULTS

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Presbyacusis, or age-related hearing loss, is a public health problem, affecting 20% of men and 30% of women over the age of 70 according to the WHO. In the most incapacitating cases, hearing aids are required. Numerous studies have evaluated the benefits of hearing aids, particularly in terms of improved hearing and quality of life. However, the specific effect of music on language skills has not yet been studied in hearing-impaired older adults. In this context, it was decided to study the effect of musical priming on the syntactic abilities of adults aged 70 or older with presbyacusis. This study is based on the hypothesis that music priming with regular music optimizes the syntax language skills of people with presbyacusis, as has already been proven in adults and normal-hearing children.

Conditions

• Presbyacousie

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Audiogram	Tonal and vocal free-field without lip-reading
OTHER	Musical priming for the syntax test	Listening to music with a regular or irregular rhythm, then judging the grammaticality of 2x6 blocks of French sentences interrupted by a pause, each block presenting 4 sentences including 2 grammatically correct sentences and 2 grammatically incorrect sentences. The sentences are pronounced by a French female voice at a natural rhythm and comfortable volume.
OTHER	Test MMSE	test to assess a person's cognitive functions and memory capacity.
OTHER	Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire	20 questions exploring 5 main facets of the musical reward experience, with 4 items for each of the 5 facets, for which participants indicate the level of agreement using a 5-level scale, ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree".

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-08-02
• Primary completion: 2027-10-01
• Completion: 2027-10-01
• First posted: 2024-02-28
• Last updated: 2026-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France