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Hearing Impairment, Strategies and Outcomes in VA Emergency Departments

Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05028972

Registry updated: 2026-10-05
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Description

HearVA involves six VA facility emergency departments (ED) over a 3-year intervention period. The first part of this study will test whether providing personal amplifiers to Veteran ED patients who self-report hearing difficulty is acceptable to these patients, can improve their hearing, enhance understanding of discharge instructions, and can reduce the risk of coming back to the ED in a short period of time (3 days and 30 days). The second part of the study will then identify whether ED staff can implement this program and achieve similar results. The second part will give ED staff increasing levels of responsibility for screening Veterans for hearing difficulty and providing personal amplifiers when such difficulty is detected.

Interventions

  • Personal Amplifier (Other)
    The intervention group will receive personal amplifiers (PockeTalkers) while they receive care in the ED
  • No Personal Amplifier (Other)
    The control group will not receive personal amplifiers while they receive care in the ED

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * English speaking * Emergency severity index criterion of 3 (medium), 4, or 5 (low acuity) * Hearing Handicap Inventory-Screen greater than or equal to 10 or positive answer to a single-item screening question * Capacity to consent to participate in research Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to consent to participate in research * Emergency severity index criterion of 1-2 (high acuity) * Hearing Handicap Inventory-Screen less than 10 and negative answer to single item screening question * Inability to speak English * Using cochlear implants

Conditions

Hearing Loss Emergency Service Hospital Readmission

Locations

  • Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO — Aurora, Colorado, United States
  • VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY — New York, New York, United States
  • Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY — Syracuse, New York, United States
  • James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY — The Bronx, New York, United States
  • Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States
  • VA North Texas Health Care System Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX — Dallas, Texas, United States
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Official Source

Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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