Targeting functional fitness, hearing and health-related quality of life in older adults with hearing loss: Walk, Talk 'n' Listen, study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
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- 作者：Justin Lambert ; Rouzbeh Ghadry-Tavi ; Kate Knuff ; Marc Jutras ; Jodi Siever…
- 关键词：Hearing loss ; Disability ; Functional fitness ; Auditory rehabilitation ; Loneliness ; Socialization ; Older adults
- 刊名：Trials
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：18
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1188KB
- 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1745-6215
- 卷排序：18
文摘
BackgroundHearing loss (HL) is a disability associated with poorer health-related quality of life including an increased risk for loneliness, isolation, functional fitness declines, falls, hospitalization and premature mortality. The purpose of this pilot trial is to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention to reduce loneliness, improve functional fitness, social connectedness, hearing and health-related quality of life in older adults with HL.