Fitness, Hearing and Quality of Life in Older Adults With Hearing Loss. Walk, Talk and Listen for Your Life

NCT02662192 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: H15-02319
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Hearing Loss, Functional

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• functional fitness

  Gait speed (6 minute walk test: distance in meters walked in 6 minutes)

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Psychosocial outcomes

  3 months

• Physical and behaviour measures

  3 months

• Project evaluation

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

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

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

auditory rehabilitation alone 1 hour of group auditory rehabilitation once a week for 10 weeks

Other: auditory rehabilitation alone

Interventions

Exercise + health education+ auditory rehabilitation OTHER

comparison of 3/4 of an hour balance, resistance and strength training, 1 hour health education, 1 hour auditory rehabilitation

Intervention

auditory rehabilitation alone OTHER

10 weeks of one hour per week of group auditory rehabilitation

Auditory rehabilitation alone

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years - 90 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Gender: Male and female
• Age limits:
• Minimum age: 65 years of age
• Maximum age: 90 years of age.
• Self-reported diagnosis of hearing loss
• Must be independently ambulatory (no use of cane, walker or wheelchair)
• Less than150 minutes per week of self-reported physical activity
• Healthy enough to participate in the intervention without exacerbating any existing symptomatology
• Not having participated in any organized exercise program for at least 6 months
• Availability and willingness to attend at least 80% of the 10 week intervention sessions in addition to baseline and final assessments. -Be English speaking and able to sign written informed consent
• A Hearing Handicap In the Elderly-25 questionnaire score of 25 \> 17

You may not qualify if:

• Dementia
• Depression

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of British Columbia: lead

Study Sites (1)

Southern Medical Program, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 321 Reichwald Health Sciences Center, 1088 Discovery Ave.

Kelowna, British Columbia, V1Z-4C6, Canada

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Jones CA, Siever J, Knuff K, Van Bergen C, Mick P, Little J, Jones G, Murphy MA, Kurtz D, Miller H. Walk, Talk and Listen: a pilot randomised controlled trial targeting functional fitness and loneliness in older adults with hearing loss. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr 14;9(4):e026169. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026169.

  PMID: 30987987 BACKGROUND

• Lambert J, Ghadry-Tavi R, Knuff K, Jutras M, Siever J, Mick P, Roque C, Jones G, Little J, Miller H, Van Bergen C, Kurtz D, Murphy MA, Jones CA. Targeting functional fitness, hearing and health-related quality of life in older adults with hearing loss: Walk, Talk 'n' Listen, study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2017 Jan 28;18(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s13063-017-1792-z.

  PMID: 28129779 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Hearing Loss, Functional

Interventions

Exercise

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Hearing Loss; Hearing Disorders; Ear Diseases; Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases; Sensation Disorders; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Charlotte Jones, PhD, MD

  University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor of Medicine

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 14, 2016
• First Posted: January 25, 2016
• Study Start: April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2016
• Study Completion: December 15, 2016
• Last Updated: November 9, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)