Text message reminders to help people with hearing loss use hearing aids
Tests automated text reminders for adults with hearing loss who could use hearing aids.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Stanford University
- Where
- Stanford, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Automated Text Message Reminders to Promote Hearing Aid Adoption
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 190 people, planned
- Started
- 6 Nov 2026
- Expected to end
- Dec 2030
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Automated text message reminder
- Record updated
- 12 November 2026
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 English-speaking adults with hearing loss who have been told by their care team to get hearing aids. It tests whether automated text message reminders help people start using hearing aids.
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- Hearing loss in people who have been advised to get hearing aids
- Earlier treatment
- People who already use hearing aids or cochlear implants cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Already using hearing aids or cochlear implants
- No valid cellphone number
- Dementia
- Not English-speaking
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- English-speaking adult patients who have been recommended for hearing aids
Who cannot take part
- Patients will be excluded if they use hearing aids or cochlear implants
- Patients with dementia will also be excluded
- Patients without a valid cellphone number will be excluded
Where in United States
- Stanford UniversityStanford, United StatesEnrolling by invitation
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Many individuals with hearing loss do not receive adequate hearing healthcare. Only about 30 percent of people that are found to have hearing loss during a hearing test go on to use hearing aids. The investigators propose to test the use of text message reminders to educate patients with hearing loss, and to encourage them to get hearing aids. The study objective is to examine whether automated text-messaging reminders increase the use of hearing aids among patients with hearing loss, who are hearing aid candidates.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Automated Text Message ReminderTreatment being tested
Participants in the intervention group will receive automated text messages instructing them to obtain hearing aids. The messages will also include basic information on the prevalence and negative effects of hearing loss.
- Control GroupNo study treatment, for comparison
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
- Automated Text Message Reminders to Promote Hearing Aid Adoption
- Plain-language title
- Text message reminders to help people with hearing loss use hearing aidsGenerated 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
- 12 November 2026