Evaluation of the Impact of Cochlear Implants on Cognition in Older Adults
Abstract
The subjects will be age 65 years and older, with no upper limit of age range with hearing loss that are candidates for standard-of-care cochlear implant.
Cognitive tests will be administered preoperative, and postoperative at 6 and 12 month, and 5 year intervals.
Conditions: Dementia, Hearing Loss, Presbycusis.
Primary outcome: Mini-mental State Exam (MMSE); Digit Span test (verbal); Stroop Color-Word Test (Golden version); Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R); Hayling Sentence Completion Test; Spatial Span Test (visuospatial); d2 Test of Attention; Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R); Trail Making Test Part B.
Enrollment: 37 participants.
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Evidence Hub reads this as a clinical trial, done in people. Its evidence level is 3 of 5 (Moderate · trial / cohort / secondary analysis). Trials without a large randomized design, cohorts and secondary analyses give moderate evidence. Reported size: 37 participants or records.
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