Randomised controlled feasibility trial of an active communication education programme plus hearing aid provision versus hearing aid provision alone (ACE To HEAR).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish the acceptability and feasibility of delivering the Active Communication Education (ACE) programme to increase quality of life through improving communication and hearing aid use in the UK National Health Service.

Design

Randomised controlled, open feasibility trial with embedded economic and process evaluations.

Setting

Audiology departments in two hospitals in two UK cities.

Participants

Twelve hearing aid users aged 18 years or over who reported moderate or less than moderate benefit from their new hearing aid.

Interventions

Consenting participants (along with a significant other) were to be randomised by a remote, centralised randomisation service in groups to ACE plus treatment-as-usual (intervention group) or treatment-as-usu

SUBMITTER: Watson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8031014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature