Training Listening Skills With the Inclusion of Cognitive Control

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-04-03

Study Completion Date

2024-09-30

Brief Summary

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Participating in spoken conversation constitutes a multitasking situation with concurrent demands on sensorimotor (auditory, postural) and cognitive functioning (memory, updating, task switching and inhibition). As aging affects multisensory integration and cognitive control, these higher-order processes are likely to put accumulating constraints on listening as adults grow older. By training listening skills (not solely auditory skills), the investigators aim at improving overall communication and quality of life. Moreover, the investigators aim at freeing up cognitive resources in the listen task: the better one gets at a certain domain specific task, the less one needs to draw from other resources and, the more resources are free for another concurrent task. The interdisciplinary approach will inform us about ideal audiological rehabilitation or intervention approaches. Pre-posttests comprise behavioral measures to evaluate listening skills and transfer towards non-trained measures. The training is tablet-based and can be performed at home.

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Detailed Description

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Goals of the study:

* Investigate transfer of listening skills to non-trained listening.
* To develop evidence-based guidelines for clinical audiological rehabilitation.
* Investigate if the inclusion of cognitive control frees up cognitive resources to use for another concurrent task.
* Inform about retention following listening training

All participants will be assessed 4 times, with a 4-week interval in between. Participants in the first arm will perform the training during the first two weeks. 4 weeks after training ended and 8 weeks after training ended, retention of training gains will be assessed. Participants in the second arm will perform the delayed training. This is to control for procedural learning effects. After 4 weeks they will start training for 4 weeks. After training retention of training gains will be assessed after 4 weeks. The third arm will start with active control training (listening to stories) for 4 weeks, followed by training for 4 weeks. After these 8 weeks, retention was measured 4 weeks later. Participants are randomly allocated to a group. The efficacy of training will be determined with a within-subject design (i.e. baseline session outcomes will be compared to the final session outcomes of the randomized control trial.

Conditions

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Hearing Disability

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Immediate training group

Participants in this group will train immediately for 4 weeks. Afterwards, they will not train for the 8 remaining weeks.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Listen training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Auditory skills with the inclusion of cognitive control.

Delayed Training Group

Participants in this group will receive delayed training after 4 weeks of no training.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Listen training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Auditory skills with the inclusion of cognitive control.

Active control group

Participants in this group will perform an active control for 4 weeks, followed by 4 weeks of training.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Listen training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Auditory skills with the inclusion of cognitive control.

Interventions

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Listen training

Auditory skills with the inclusion of cognitive control.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Clients who experience listening and communication difficulties.
* Clients must not undergo any audiological rehabilitation (auditory training/hearing aid fitting) during the study.
* Able to operate the training programme as an app on a tablet (e.g. clients have sufficient eyesight to see the exercises; clients must be able to operate the programme).
* At least 18 years old.
* Dutch-speaking, as all training material and counselling questions will be presented in Dutch.