Hearing Impairment, Strategies and Outcomes in VA Emergency Departments
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Hearing Loss
Emergency Service
Hospital Readmission
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 60 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 1,050 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
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About This Trial
HearVA involves six VA facility emergency departments (ED) over a 3-year intervention period. The first part of this study will test whether providing personal amplifiers to Veteran ED patients who self-report hearing difficulty is acceptable to these patients, can improve their hearing, enhance understanding of discharge instructions, and can reduce the risk of coming back to the ED in a short pe…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* English speaking
* Emergency severity index criterion of 3 (medium), 4, or 5 (low acuity)
* Hearing Handicap Inventory-Screen greater than or equal to 10 or positive answer to a single-item screening question
* Capacity to consent to participate in research
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