Improving Access and Affordability of Adult Hearing Healthcare

Description

This project will address quality of care issues associated with hearing loss in adults who have mild-to-moderate hearing loss and who have no access to hearing healthcare. Through the use of three different interventions involving over-the-counter hearing aids, it will lead to options that will increase access and affordability of hearing healthcare for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.

Conditions

Hearing Loss

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This project will address quality of care issues associated with hearing loss in adults who have mild-to-moderate hearing loss and who have no access to hearing healthcare. Through the use of three different interventions involving over-the-counter hearing aids, it will lead to options that will increase access and affordability of hearing healthcare for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.

Improving Access and Affordability of Adult Hearing Healthcare: Effectiveness of Community-based Interventions in West Central and South Alabama

Improving Access and Affordability of Adult Hearing Healthcare

Condition
Hearing Loss
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Tuscaloosa

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, 35487

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Mild-to-moderate hearing loss
  • * Live in West Central or South Alabama
  • * 40 years of age or older

Ages Eligible for Study

40 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,

Marcia J Hay-McCutcheon, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Study Record Dates

2025-12