An interventional study of posturography in Age-Related Hearing Loss, Postural; Defect and Hearing Aid, sponsored by University Hospital, Angers. Completed at 2 sites in France. Open to participants aged 55 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-14.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Angers · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Presbycusis could be associated to increased risk to fall. There is little about the impact on postural balance of hearing aids. In this study, the investigators describe the postural balance evolution before and after hearing aid fitting in presbycusis-affected adults (55-80years old) consulting Angers University Hospital ENT department and ENT Medical Doctor of Le Mans .
After being informed about te study and consentment, patients meeting inclusion criteria consulting for presbycusis and in indication for hearing aids will be included to have posturometry (V0). Posturometry is performed 3 months later, before the first hearing aid installation (V1a) and after (V1b), as well as three months after hearing aid wearing (V2). Evolution of posturometry parameters without hearing aids between V0 and V1a serve as control and is compared to the evolution of posturometry parameters after hearing aid wearing between V1b and V2.
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Non inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion criteria:
patients aged 55 to 80 years old, undergoing posturography at diagnosis of ARHL and 3 months later before hearing aid fitting, within the role of control same patients udergoing posturography at hearing aid fitting and 3 months after.
Other: posturography
posturography will be performed when diagnosis of ARHL, in need of hearing aid fitting, is done and after information and written approval from patient. Posturography is performed later when hearing aid fitting and 3months after hearing aid use
Elliptic surface variation in posturography assessment before and after hearing aid fitting in presbycusis patients
analysis of variation of elliptic surface (cm2), eyes opened and closed, and subsequent romberg quotient (elliptic surface closed eyes/elliptic surface opened eyes) in the 3 months before hearing aid fitting and the 3 months after
Time frame: 3 months
the effective wearing time of the device since its installation
average of time within hearing aid use per day (on the last 3 months)
Time frame: 3 months
the severity of the initial hearing loss
calculation of the average hearing loss measured by the average of the hearing thresholds without a hearing aid at 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz
Time frame: 3 months
the notion of a balance disorder described by the patient
vertigo or feeling of instability
Time frame: 3 months
Plan to share: Undecided — anonimized data within elliptic surface of posturography, PTA, and self reported dissiness
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Ran from Jun 2023 to primary completion in Jan 2025, 19 months.
Of 25 interventional studies with no phase under Presbycusis, half reached primary completion within 29 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 58. This study's 19 months is below that.
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