Hearing Loss Screening for People with Memory and Thinking Problems
Tests the VRB test to spot hearing trouble in noise in memory clinic patients.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital, Lille
- Where
- Lille, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- EARLY DETECTION OF DEAFNESS IN A MEMORY CENTER
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 200 people, planned
- Started
- 27 May 2025
- Expected to end
- 27 Aug 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- VRB test
- Record updated
- 20 August 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for people aged 50 or older with mild to moderate memory and thinking problems. It tests a hearing check (the VRB test) for understanding speech in noise.
- Age
- 50 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Disease stage
- Mild to moderate cognitive impairment, with an MMSE score ≥15/30.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Deafness already diagnosed, with or without a hearing aid
- Ear disease that is getting worse, or a blocked eardrum (more than 1/3 of its surface)
- Psychiatric illness that is not stable
- Major sight problems, such as age-related macular degeneration
- Diagnosed major language disorders, or being an adult under legal protection
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patient with mild to moderate cognitive impairment, with an MMSE score ≥15/30
- Patient mastering the French language
- Patient who has given written consent to participate in the trial
- Socially insured patient
- Patient willing to comply with all study procedures and duration
- Patient accompanied by a study partner
Who cannot take part
- Medical history of diagnosed deafness, fitted or not
- History of progressive otological pathology or presence of tympanic obstruction (>1/3 of the surface of the eardrum)
- History of unstabilized psychiatric pathology
- Established diagnosis of major language disorders (Primary Progressive Aphasia APP...)
- Major visual impairment (Age-Related Macular Degeneration AMD...)
- Major under legal protection measure
Where in France
- Hopital Roger SalengroLille, FranceContact: Pascaline CassagnaudTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), like neurodegenerative diseases, appears insidiously with age. As major public health issues, they are nonetheless under-diagnosed because the presence of one can hinder the objectification of the other.
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The CogAudio project aims to detect early and in an ambulatory mode in a memory centre a speech perception disorder in noise thanks to the VRB test in patients weakened by cognitive disorders.
The group in the trial
- perception disorder in noise in patients weakened by cognitive disorders.Treatment being tested
The CogAudio project aims to detect early and in an ambulatory mode in a memory centre a speech perception disorder in noise thanks to the VRB test in patients weakened by cognitive disorders.
Treatment: VRB test
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.
- Official title
- DEAFNESS SCREENING IN A MEMORY CENTER IN SUBJECTS WITH COGNITIVE DISORDERS
- Plain-language title
- Hearing Loss Screening for People with Memory and Thinking ProblemsGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 20 August 2025