An interventional study of Exercise + health education+ auditory rehabilitation and auditory rehabilitation alone in Hearing Loss, Functional, sponsored by University of British Columbia. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 65 Years to 90 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-11-09.
Sponsored by University of British Columbia · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This study examines the effect of an exercise and health education/auditory rehabilitation and socialization intervention on functional fitness, hearing handicap and psychosocial distress measures in older adults with hearing loss.
Hearing loss is associated with functional fitness declines and increased risk for isolation, dementia, depression, falls, hospitalization and premature mortality. No studies have determined the effect of an exercise intervention on these measures in older adults with hearing loss.
After baseline assessment of function fitness and several psychosocial measures, 60 older adults with hearing loss will be randomized into a 10 week exercise, health education, socialization and auditory rehabilitation program or auditory rehabilitation alone. The exercise program consists of 3/4 of an hour strengthening and resistance training followed by 30 minutes of group walking. The educational session content is determined by participants and is interactive and may include such topics as wills and probate, diabetes treatment, healthy exercise etc. The 3/4 of an hour auditory rehabilitation sessions are modified from an online program and will include interactive sessions on education about hearing and hearing devices/technologies, psychosocial support and enhancing communication skills.
At the end of the 10 week intervention the assessments of functional fitness and psychosocial measures will be repeated. The group that was randomized to the auditory rehabilitation alone will then be offered the exercise program.
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-Gender: Male and female
Age limits:
Exclusion Criteria:
Exercise + health education + auditory rehabilitation 10 weeks of exercise, interactive health education, socialization and auditory rehabilitation program
Other: Exercise + health education+ auditory rehabilitation
auditory rehabilitation alone 1 hour of group auditory rehabilitation once a week for 10 weeks
Other: auditory rehabilitation alone
comparison of 3/4 of an hour balance, resistance and strength training, 1 hour health education, 1 hour auditory rehabilitation
10 weeks of one hour per week of group auditory rehabilitation
functional fitness
Gait speed (6 minute walk test: distance in meters walked in 6 minutes)
Time frame: 3 months
Psychosocial outcomes
Hearing and health-related quality of life HHIE-25
Time frame: 3 months
Physical and behaviour measures
Physical activity: Time spent in moderate-vigorous physical activity: The Actigraph GT3X+ tri-axial waist worn accelerometer (Actigraph, Pensacola, Florida)
Time frame: 3 months
Project evaluation
Satisfaction with the Auditory Rehabilitation, health education and exercise sessions. Confidence in being able to maintain their newly acquired communication strategies and exercise regime. Comments on how the program could be improved.
Time frame: 3 months
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Plan to share: No — Only aggregate data will be shared. Consent form indicates this as well, so participants understand that their individual data will not be shared
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