Promoting Early Diagnosis of Congenital Hearing Loss With Patient Navigators

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Conditions studied: Congenital Hearing Loss

In brief

Hearing loss is the most common sensory congenital disorder and this condition is diagnosable and treatable. Children that are born with hearing loss have to undergo several hearing tests to diagnose the condition and many families are delayed in receiving this testing or never obtain the needed testing. This research employs a new method for helping children with hearing loss receive timely care by using a patient navigator, who is someone who teaches and provides emotional/social support for the families of these children. The hypothesis of this study is that a patient navigator will hasten the timing of pediatric audiological testing, improve compliance with scheduled appointments, and expand parental knowledge of pediatric hearing loss.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01917747
Run by
Matthew Bush, MD
People needed
106
Starts
2014-01-01
Expected to finish
2020-01-01
Last updated by the study team
2020-03-31

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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