[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-study-detail:100649078":3},{"organization":4,"armGroups":7,"interventions":20,"overallOfficials":26,"centralContacts":31,"locations":26,"responsibleParty":37,"collaborators":26,"id":39,"slug":40,"hasResults":41,"nctId":42,"briefTitle":43,"officialTitle":43,"acronym":26,"eligibilityCriteria":44,"healthyVolunteers":41,"sex":45,"minAge":46,"maxAge":26,"enrollmentInfo":47,"targetDuration":26,"studyType":50,"phases":51,"briefSummary":53,"conditions":54,"keywords":26,"overallStatus":56,"whyStopped":26,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":57,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":58,"startDateStruct":61,"completionDateStruct":63,"leadSponsor":65,"locationsCount":26},{"fullName":5,"class":6},"The Hong Kong Polytechnic University","OTHER",[8,14],{"label":9,"type":10,"description":11,"interventionNames":12},"A web-based gamified auditory-cognitive sequential dual-task training","EXPERIMENTAL","A web-based gamified auditory-cognitive sequential dual-task training (ACDT) will be provided to participants. Each participant will receive a 12-week program conducted five times a week, with each session lasting 60 minutes, following a sequential dual-task training design.",[13],"Behavioral: Web-based gamified auditory-cognitive sequential dual-task training system",{"label":15,"type":16,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Crossword puzzles control group","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","Participants will be instructed to complete web-based Chinese crossword puzzles 60 minutes per day and five days a week.",[19],"Behavioral: Control",[21,27],{"type":22,"name":23,"description":24,"armGroupLabels":25,"otherNames":26},"BEHAVIORAL","Web-based gamified auditory-cognitive sequential dual-task training system","The intervention is a 12-week sequential dual-task training program delivered five times per week for 60 minutes per session. Each session includes 5 minutes of volume adjustment and orientation exercises, 25 minutes of adaptive auditory training in speech-in-noise, rapid speech, and competing-speaker listening, 25 minutes of culturally tailored cognitive games targeting executive function, memory, attention, and perceptual-motor skills, and a 5-minute wrap-up with communication strategies and long-term memory recall. The program uses real-life scenarios, individualized difficulty adjustment, audiovisual guidance, and gamified features such as praise, fireworks, likes, and leaderboards to enhance engagement.",[9],null,{"type":22,"name":28,"description":29,"armGroupLabels":30,"otherNames":26},"Control","Participants will be instructed to complete web-based Chinese crossword puzzles 60 minutes per day and five days a week. Medium difficulty level will be selected for participants according to previous research.",[15],[32],{"name":33,"role":34,"phone":35,"phoneExt":26,"email":36},"Ivy Yan Zhao","CONTACT","+8527664550","yan-ivy.zhao@polyu.edu.hk",{"type":38,"investigatorFullName":26,"investigatorTitle":26,"investigatorAffiliation":26,"oldNameTitle":26,"oldOrganization":26},"SPONSOR","100649078","strengthening-the-ear-to-brain-connection-in-older-adults-with-hearing-loss-through-engaging-web-based-gamified-auditory-cognitive-dual-task-training-a-randomized-controlled-trial-100649078",false,"NCT07730775","Strengthening the Ear-to-brain Connection in Older Adults With Hearing Loss Through Engaging Web-based Gamified Auditory-cognitive Dual-task Training: a Randomized Controlled Trial","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Ethnic Chinese aged 60 years and above, who speak Cantonese or Putonghua;\n2. Mild-to-moderate peripheral hearing loss diagnosed by a pure-tone average of 20-50 dB across octave frequencies of 0.5-4kHz in both ears;\n3. Not using hearing aids;\n4. Sensorineural hearing loss (defined as an air-bone gap across 0.5, 1, and 2 kHz\\\u003C15 dB); and 5) No cognitive impairment \\[score of ≦2 on the 5-item Abbreviated Memory Inventory for the Chinese (AMIC)\\].\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Previously took part in a training intervention study;\n2. Diagnosed with a major neurocognitive disorder;\n3. A history of symptomatic stroke or other disease of the central nervous system; speech\u002F language disorders;\n4. A serious medical or psychiatric illness (e.g., severe depression, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder) or a visual impairment that would interfere with engaging in web-based training.","ALL","60 Years",{"count":48,"type":49},164,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[52],"NA","Abstract Objectives To assess the effectiveness of a web-based gamified auditory-cognitive dual-task training (ACDT) in improving the everyday listening abilities of older adults with hearing loss (HL), including speech perception performance, cognition, and self-reported hearing.\n\nHypothesis to be tested ACDT participants will show significantly greater improvements in 1) self-reported hearing; 2) speech perception-in-noise; 3) attention; 4) reasoning; and 5) dual-task of listening and working memory compared to the control group at week 6, immediately post-intervention, and week 24.\n\nDesign and subjects A prospective, single-blinded, two-arm parallel randomized controlled trial with individual semi-structured interviews. 164 Chinese adults aged 60 years or older, who speak Cantonese or Putonghua, and have mild-to-moderate HL with a pure-tone average of 20-50 dB across octave frequencies 0.5 to 4kHz in both ears.\n\nStudy instruments A web-based gamified auditory-cognitive dual-task training. Interventions This is a 12-week program conducted five times a week, with each session lasting 60 minutes, following a sequential dual-task training design. Each session includes auditory training in speech-in-noise, rapid speech, and competing speaker, and cognitive training focusing on executive function, perceptual-motor ability, memory, and complex attention.\n\nMain outcome measures Self-reported hearing (untrained); Speech perception in noise (trained), attention in listening and sustained selective attention (trained), reasoning (trained), and dual-task of listening and working memory; complex span working memory (trained).\n\nData analysis Descriptive statistics, an independent sample t-test or chi square test, generalized estimating equation and thematic analysis will be used.\n\nExpected results ACDT significantly improves the everyday listening abilities of older adults with HL.",[55],"Auditory-cognitive Dual-task Training","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-07-23",{"date":59,"type":60},"2026-07-28","ACTUAL",{"date":62,"type":49},"2026-11-14",{"date":64,"type":49},"2029-11-13",{"name":5,"class":6}]