Cognitive Screening of Patients with Hearing Loss
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Zurich
- Where
- Zurich, SwitzerlandSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 20 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Nov 2019
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Questionnaire: DemTect
- Record updated
- 30 March 2025
Who can take part
- Age
- 50 years to 90 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- - Age 50 - 90
- Measurable hearing loss
- Sufficient knowledge of german
- Ability to consent
Who cannot take part
- Present or past alcohol or drug abuse
- Age < 50 or >90
- No measurable hearing loss
- Clinically relevant depressive symptoms
- lnability to consent
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 50 and 90 years old?
Where in Switzerland
- Andrea KegelZurich, SwitzerlandNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Hearing loss and cognitive impairment both appear in elderly patients. The goal was to use a modified screening method added to already established cognitive tests to obtain a standardized test for detection of cognitive impairment in patients with hearing loss.
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The aim of this study is to collect data with neuropsychological tests using questionnaires and to determine cognitive impairment in patients with hearing loss.
The collected data will be evaluated using SPSS 23. The corrected item-total correlation and item difficulty of the item DemTectEar will be assessed by item analysis / Cronbachs' Alpha. For further evaluation and comparisons two-sided t-tests with a level of significance 0.05 or Mann-Whitney-U-tests will be performed.
The group in the trial
- Effect of hearing loss on dementiaOther group
Effect of hearing loss on dementia, collected with a standardized questionnaire
Treatment: Questionnaire: DemTect
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT04672174, who can take part
- Record updated
- 30 March 2025