Mild matters: trial learnings and importance of community engagement in research for early identified bilateral mild hearing loss.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early identification of mild hearing loss has resulted in early hearing amplification without adequate evidence of effectiveness. This paper describes learnings from a pilot trial, combined with a qualitative study, to highlight the importance of community engagement in designing research studies to determine whether early amplification benefits young children with bilateral mild hearing loss.

Methods

PART 1 of the study is a proof-of-concept non-blinded multi-centre randomised controlled trial (RCT) of hearing device fitting vs. no fitting aimed to gather preliminary data and determine its acceptability/feasibility in children <2 years old with bilateral mild hearing loss.

Results

PART 2 is a qualitative study to understand the barriers/enablers to RCT p

SUBMITTER: Sung V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442842 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature