Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community Health Worker Program on Hearing Loss (Oyendo Bien)

Overview

The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of a community health worker intervention to expand access to hearing health care among older adults facing health disparities.

Full Title of Study: “Oyendo Bien: Reducing Disparities in Access to Hearing Health Care on the U.S.-Mexico Border”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
    • Masking: Single (Investigator)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: January 23, 2019

Interventions

  • Behavioral: community health worker-audiologist communication education and support group
    • A 5-week educational program on hearing loss, communication strategies, and peer support facilitated by community health workers supervised by an audiologist.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: Immediate communication education and support group
  • No Intervention: Waitlist

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Mean frequency of communication strategy use as measured at eight weeks post baseline for each of a series of study-specific strategies taught in the intervention
    • Time Frame: 8 weeks
    • Participants rate the frequency of use of each communication strategy on a five-point Likert scale. Communication strategies include such things as discussing hearing loss, talking face-to-face, and speaking slowly and clearly.

Secondary Measures

  • Mean number of hearing health actions taken and number of people who took each hearing health action at eight weeks post baseline
    • Time Frame: 8 weeks
    • Questionnaire includes 7 possible actions for managing hearing health or accessing hearing health care services (discussed with family, discussed with doctor, discussed with specialist, had a hearing test, used an assistive device, used a hearing aid, used hearing protection).

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Minimum age: 50 years – Audiometrically-confirmed hearing loss – Availability of a communication partner to attend the program with the participant – Be Spanish speaking and able to sign written informed consent Exclusion Criteria:

  • Cognitive impairment

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 50 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • University of Arizona
  • Collaborator
    • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Nicole Marrone, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Arizona

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